r/news • u/Big-Heron4763 • 5d ago

Passenger ordered to pay more than $5,000 in fuel costs after flight diverted due to bad behavior

https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/13/travel/australian-airline-passenger-fine-cost-fuel-intl-hnk/index.html
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u/SyntheticGod8 5d ago

It should be seen in a similar light to Tiananmen Square. Remember the Tank Man photo? I've heard that he stood in front of those tanks because he couldn't believe that the Red Army, the People's Army, was being deployed against their own people.

We need to recognize that there are people in this country who have consistently shown they have no interest in acting in good faith, have only the worst criminal intentions, and are basically elected terrorists with no interest in governance. They're worse than dead weight or conservative; they're regressive.

Progress cannot be stopped, only delayed.

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u/jackkerouac81 5d ago

I don't think we know enough about Tank Man to ascribe motives to what he did... not saying it isn't correct... but he wasn't identified, didn't write a manifesto, wasn't on 60 minutes...