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		Miraste on July 8, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Concorde ‘B’ (2014) They're not public services, they're security theater with no real effectiveness. The skip programs are effectively official acknowledgement of that.

Scoundreller on July 8, 2020 [–]

I agree they’re theatre, but letting 1st class queue-jump isn’t acknowledgement of that: they’re not skipping the checks themselves, just making the queue longer for everyone else.

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