Sixty minutes. That’s how long it took for a private Snapchat message to travel from Kristen Volpe’s phone to the FBI to the deputies standing in her elementary school hallway. On January 29, 2025, the 22-year-old student teacher at John L. Hensey Elementary in Washington, Illinois, vented to her boyfriend and two roommates — three people total — after a student closed her laptop mid-class and wiped her lesson plan. She referenced shooting the student or the school. She meant it as a frustrated joke. Snapchat’s algorithm didn’t get the humor.
No student reported her. No parent. No coworker. The flag was entirely automated. Snapchat’s policy permits voluntary emergency disclosures to law enforcement — no warrant required — when the platform determines imminent harm exists. The algorithm makes that initial call. Think of it like your Ring doorbell deciding to call 911 on its own, except the doorbell is reading your text messages.
How is China fascist?
It meets all the economic and political definitions.
Keep in mind I believe the entire world has descended into fascism thanks to the US. Also fascism for me is a scale, not all or nothing.
The last straw for me was China providing arms to Africa. Their weapons have already ended up on both sides of the conflicts responsible for killing untold civilians. China is now the world’s fourth largest purveyor of arms.
Is China as bad as the US? Not at all, in fact I really appreciate that their imperialism has been limited. Speaking of the two there is no denying that China has helped propel billionaire’s wealth in the US and vice versa. I personally believe the rise of the billionaire class is responsible for the rise in fascism.
I don’t know the ins and outs of the arming of African countrys by China, but I do know that supplying arms to people defending themselves is a good thing actually. If they end up sending arms to Iran, that’s literally a very good thing in the battle against the fascist global hegemon.
Hey, if you want to be an apologist that is on you. I won’t be joining you though.
I am firmly on the side of humanity.
If humans are killing humans, those humans have a right to self defense to save their humanity.
But again, I don’t know the ins and outs of the African arms situation, I guess I was just trying to make a broader point. I also agree with the sliding scale of fascism, there are levels.
However China is much more socialist than fascist oriented in my view.