CBP is relentless in its mission to safeguard the nation’s borders and the privacy of all citizens. CBP’s biometric facial comparison technology is hosted within a secure cloud-based environment and does not store biographic data for any travelers. CBP retains U.S. citizen photos for no more than 12 hours after identity verification and only for continuity of operations purposes.

https://www.cbp.gov/travel/biometrics/privacy-policy

Is what they claim. What you saw may have been about non-citizens

They store the data from everytime you enter and exit the country. For citizens they claim to delete that data after a couple days- but I would not be too confident in that. So if you are a citizen ALWAYS opt out of biometric entry and exit. I’ve multiple times been told it is not an option, then being forced to wait 10 minutes- harassed about why I want to opt out, then it suddenly becomes an option. This is despite CBPs policy that you cannot be penalized for it. I have several audio recordings of this happening because I noticed how much of a pattern it was.

UK is now also doing the same

That’s how religion works. It tends to inform people’s morality

Then is an absolute monarch capitalist? It is fundamentally a different system to have a state merged with corporation as compared to have them divorced. To deny that is to be intentionally obtuse.

What the article is about

This I kinda don’t get, in that this is probably the most vanilla thing you’d expect to hear from basically anyone of any religion about their spouse not following it.

Did you see what he said?

If the capitalists are in charge of the state, they are the state. So it is not privately owned, it is state owned, the state just doesn’t serve the populace. That’s not capitalism.

the large firms and key industries are overwhelmingly publicly owned and planned

To not too dissimilar an extent as modern Russia

the working class is in control of the state.

Do you believe this for North Korea? If so, why not Russia?

Except that is not the principle in either country. There are plenty of cases where the state is in principle in control, or actually in control. Russia, similar to other economies, such as fascist Italy or China is structured in such away where you can exist as a “private” company as long as you ultimately bow to the state. You could also put many of the gulf states into that club. If socialism is not “when government does stuff” then capitalism is not “when rich people”

But it does not meet the definition of capitalism you gave. I agree its also not entirely socialist. It’s almost like its not a binary, most economies are mixed. The US is also not purely capitalist.

You said larger firms and key industries. In Russia small firms are more private, but larger firms and industries range from heavily state influenced to fully nationalized.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_companies_of_Russia

4/5 the top 5 companies are transparently state owned

What is ownership? If I say you own a car, but take it and drive it whenever I want, even if you may own it- I control it. Given that context, is modern Russia socialist or capitalist?

What is capitalism?

The dominant economic and political system is mixed and always has been.

Them too

Often the oppressor is also the oppressed in some ways. I think empathy for people doing bad things is good actually.

Constant purity testing, and invalidating everything someone says because you disagree on a couple issues 💀

I think thats a kinda dumb purity test when they clearly did put a lot of effort into actually trying, and I don’t see why its better if they threw away the supply they already mistakenly bought.