Student who punched another student holding pro-ICE sign at Lake Zurich High School received 2-day suspension
https://www.lakemchenryscanner.com/2026/02/20/student-who-punched-another-student-holding-pro-ice-sign-at-lake-zurich-high-school-received-2-day-suspension/
This kid:
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nocturne@slrpnk.net · 451 pts · 191d
Of course the bootlicker was wearing meta glasses.
dumbass@piefed.social · 170 pts · 191d
Maybe they're not so bad if we get to see more fascists get hit in 4k.
WindyRebel@lemmy.world · 118 pts · 191d
Didn’t the kid (Spud) also spout off about “school code”?
I don’t know any schools that let you video record in a school without consent. Dude is wearing a recording device as glasses and did not get consent from anyone in the school. That’s against school code, bruuuuuuuuuuuh.
nocturne@slrpnk.net · 74 pts · 191d
The article says Spud did get one day of in school suspension for recording in the school. He also complained others were also recording. Maybe if spud had not posted the video online he spills not have been caught.
Katana314@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 191d
I remember visiting the teens center at a local library. I saw a bit of nerd merch I thought was really cool, so I went to take a picture of it, and the librarian there was on me in a flash to stop photography. Recording protection is a real thing when it matters.
jenings@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 191d
Spud th chud?
bearboiblake@pawb.social · 334 pts · 191d
They gave my hero a couple of days off school as a reward, gotta love it.
WalrusDragonOnABike@reddthat.com · 51 pts · 191d
Hopefully he got
paidfree 100s for those days offpticrix@lemmy.ca · 75 pts · 191d
Punching a Nazi should be able to get you at least passing grade for history classes.
fulcrummed@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 191d
Also phys ed, philosophy & ethics, and physics
daw@feddit.org · 7 pts · 191d
It's more than a worrying amount of people take away from history class
thorhop@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 191d
I bet more than a few teachers started giving him apples.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 240 pts · 191d
Punch a nazi, get 2 days off going to school full of nazis. Nice.
Also: The nazi kid's name is Spud. Bro is a literal potato.
SamuelRJankis@sh.itjust.works · 94 pts · 191d
I was wondering what the other guys parents thought of their kid. Then I saw the guy is 18 and clearly trying to do the shit stirring influencer grift.
Went ahead a blocked him on all the platforms I had accounts for.
Sunflier@lemmy.world · 53 pts · 191d
We must not look at goblin men,
We must not buy their fruits:
Who knows upon what soil they fed
Their hungry thirsty roots?
BlairMtnWarrior@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 17 pts · 191d
Their offers should not charm us, Their evil gifts would harm us.
ToTheGraveMyLove@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 190d
Goddamn, a fucking Goblin Market reference. I fucking love this website.
pivot_root@lemmy.world · 53 pts · 191d
Spud also has a blue Twitter checkmark. If it walks holding signs like a Nazi and quacks on a Nazi-owned platform it pays to use...
Lupus@feddit.org · 236 pts · 191d
What a legend.
And what a weasel.
MBech@feddit.dk · 160 pts · 191d
It's funny how they always support rules and laws when they benefit them, but ICE breaking the constitution multiple times per day isn't an issue.
Quill7513@slrpnk.net · 129 pts · 191d
fascists don't believe in law, they believe in power
EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world · 62 pts · 191d
Weaponized decency, it’s a tool to them not an ideal.
Jankatarch@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 191d
Don't forget they recorded minors without consent for 40 seconds.
titanicx@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 191d
This depends on the state laws. You have no reasonable right to privacy in a public setting in most states and schools are considered public locations. There is usually paperwork at the beginning of school that a parent signs that says something along those lines. Now when it comes to minor filming another minor, that adds another whole layer to it. But what could happen is someone could go on insta and request a takedown of the video if they felt they were filmed inappropriately.
nwtreeoctopus@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 191d
Schools aren't full public settings, but limited public forums. First and Fourth Amendment protections are much lower, for example.
And, yes, student expectations of privacy are lower, but a lot of things (like filming other students) are restricted for safety and to avoid "substantial disruption" of the learning environment. It isn't legally justified by them being minors. Filming minors in public is generally legal.
This kid would be in trouble for violating school rules around filming (or laws against stalking or something, but that doesn't apply here).
Legally, however, it could be argued that if his IG or tiktok or whatever is monetized, he's filming for commerical purposes, which would require permits/releases, but that's not what they're focusing on here, either.
And that's not getting into potential FERPA violations and the like. Anyway, schools are an odd space, legally.
klugerama@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 191d
nwtreeoctopus@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 191d
Are there laws about needing consent to film minors?
jontree255@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 191d
Conservatism 101: rules for thee, not for me.
Avicenna@programming.dev · 9 pts · 191d
Absolutely prototypical Grima Wormtongue guy. Would bet money he wants to get into politics he is probably shaping his career path after Charles Kirk.
Alexstarfire@lemmy.world · 173 pts · 191d
Worth
PotatoLibre@feddit.it · 145 pts · 191d
Becoming a living "punch the nazis" meme.
No other prize can top that.
MrVilliam@sh.itjust.works · 20 pts · 191d
Modern day Indiana Jones, but like, not Shia or whatever the last one was.
thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 140 pts · 191d
Stern@lemmy.world · 138 pts · 191d
If I was duders parents that'd be two days of pizza and soda and a informative talk about how permanent records are bullshit.
jownz@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 191d
Harvard should roll out the red carpet for this legend! I think he's submitted a flawless application essay.
NannerBanner@literature.cafe · 9 pts · 191d
He'd have to have tried date-raping someone first. Harvard has standards to uphold, don't you know.
Spacehooks@reddthat.com · 4 pts · 191d
Are they bull shit?
Stern@lemmy.world · 39 pts · 191d
Pretty much yeah. Like if you burn a school down or catch felony charges (Homey woulda got a misdemeanor if anything and a slap on the wrist punishment if it did go to trial.) thats a whole other thing, but popping a dude in the jaw? You aren't losing your shot at MIT or Yale or whatever.
idiomaddict@lemmy.world · 29 pts · 191d
You need to know that though. I disclosed a suspension I didn’t need to and got a rejection letter from my dream school, which was super interested in me until after they called me to ask about it. The rejection was dated the same day as the phone call, so I’m pretty sure that’s it, because they’d already separately sent two people an hour and a half to sell me on the school.
The suspension was for going to breakfast with my carpool buddy on her first day back in school, after her grandfather died. On the way in, she started hyperventilating and saying she couldn’t go in that day and having her first experience with death, so we went to a diner instead. We got sandwiches and she talked about her grandfather for an hour, then she was calm enough to go into school. If we’d explained it to any of the adults in our lives, they’d have been fine with it, but we lied about it and got the minimum punishment for skipping school once it all came out (she folded). I didn’t realize that it wasn’t on my school record, so I included it on my college applications.
If I’d gone there, I probably wouldn’t have studied abroad, which later enabled me to immigrate to Germany, so I’m not too upset about it anymore, but it sucked at the time
ToTheGraveMyLove@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 190d
Why the fuck would you ever narc on yourself?
idiomaddict@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 189d
I disclosed my history accurately because I am comfortable with my choices and if I lose out on something because of them, I can accept that.
I stay happy with myself that way, which is more valuable to me than a specific school.
ToTheGraveMyLove@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 189d
There's zero advantage to ever do that, you can only be happy narcing on yourself?
idiomaddict@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 189d
There’s not zero advantage to honesty, my friend.
ForlornHorseCorn@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 165d
Huh, so that’s how Eric Cartman was created.
SirMaple__@lemmy.ca · 127 pts · 191d
neidu3@sh.itjust.works · 86 pts · 191d
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works · 47 pts · 191d
This happened in Seattle, proud of that.
6stringringer@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 190d
The 206 represents!
null@lemmy.org · 43 pts · 191d
I got banned from Reddit for saying punching nazis is a form of self-defense.
We as a society should not tolerate the intolerant.
resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world · 123 pts · 191d
Punch a Nazi and get two days off of school. Sounds like a clear win.
Urist@leminal.space · -9 pts · 190d
Stormy@thelemmy.club · 26 pts · 190d
"Literal torture and abuse" by "radical pacifist type liberals" huh?
What in the psyop are you trying to pull there, Jerry?
Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz · 7 pts · 190d
There was a whole dialogue about "is it OK to punch nazis" in like 2016. Most libs in my life, including a college professor were very against punching nazis. I'm certain any comment section outside of Lemmy is full of libs going "You can't just assault people because of their opinions, that makes you just as bad as nazis".
ebolapie@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 190d
20 years ago I might have said you shouldn't punch a kid for saying Nazi shit, because he doesn't understand what he is saying and is probably just being edgy. By 2016 I was pretty on board with punching Nazis. In 2026, while I still would not punch a child because I am an adult, that's about as far as I will go with that statement. Kid did good.
TyrionBean@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 190d
Yeah, I've been writing about this idiocy since almost thirty years. Fighting evil doesn't make you just as bad as evil. Using that "logic", we were wrong to bomb the hell out of the Nazis and shoot them in Europe. We were "bad" to do so? I don't think so. It's idiotic to think that. In fact, it's an utter betrayal of the enlightenment values amongst which we gained the idea of nuance under the law. It portrays a philosophy devoid of any actual thought, relying simply on mindless knee-jerk reactions.
fibojoly@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 190d
That's pretty much what's happening right now in France. I hope we get through this kicking more fascist asses, hopefully once Lyon remember its fucking history.
ToTheGraveMyLove@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 190d
When your opinion is ethnic cleansing, no, using violence against that doesn't make you as bad as the Nazis. Stop race hate by any means necessary. (Not saying that's your stance, just my 2 cents to that dumbass argument)
alonsohmtz@feddit.uk · -2 pts · 190d
Urist@leminal.space · -10 pts · 190d
Stormy@thelemmy.club · 14 pts · 190d
It's stuff you made up in your head to push your position/narritive.
Urist@leminal.space · -8 pts · 190d
Warl0k3@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 190d
Calling you out for posting made up nonsense broadly attacking a group you frequently disparage is not vagueposting, that's very direct. Even if you believe your prejudices truly are representative enough of the whole to warrant being shared, which no, don't try and dismiss their criticism by reframing what they've said as something you can object to. That's not what they were doing, and what you're doing is transparent.
Urist@leminal.space · -5 pts · 190d
EmpatheticTeddyBear@lemmy.world · 109 pts · 191d
Of course he has, if a troll behaves they cannot troll people!
ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml · 59 pts · 191d
Administration: "Okay, potato... err... Spud. Here's our suggestion: Don't support murder and internment of minority groups. Especially publicly. It's likely to make people angry at you and may be dangerous."
Potato: "No that's my only hobby"
dumbass@piefed.social · 3 pts · 191d
I think its more simple of a safety plan for someone named spud.
Something like, just shut the fuck up, that is it"
HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.world · 105 pts · 190d
He accepted the consequences. We all heard it.
floofloof@lemmy.ca · 96 pts · 191d
This kid sounds like the ultimate little piece of shit. I hope he and his followers grow out of it, but he'll probably make a bunch of money and be offered a senior position in the federal government. Which won't prove him right, though he'll think it does.
hume_lemmy@lemmy.ca · 54 pts · 191d
I hope the cops are keeping an eye on him, because by the time he hits his college years he's going to be trying to slip unidentified powders into women's drinks at the bar.
bearboiblake@pawb.social · 46 pts · 191d
This is exactly the kind of person who becomes a cop. ACAB.
tyrant@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 191d
This is the reality we live in.
caboose2006@lemmy.world · 95 pts · 191d
He knew the consequences, he did it anyway. Legend.
LMurch@thelemmy.club · 13 pts · 191d
He should get punished. Doesn't mean it was the wrong thing to do.
null@lemmy.org · 18 pts · 191d
It's a textbook example of chaotic good. He broke the rules to do the morally good thing.
MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip · 12 pts · 191d
Neutral Good considers the rules and tends to acknowledge owledge the rules are usually good, but sometimes should be bent or broken. Chaotic Good ranges from "Fuck the rules!" to "Any rule that oppresses the people is bullshit" to "The rules are sometimes okay, I guess, but I'm gonna ignore them without remorse when they make no sense." Minding that the Good component means they tend not to break rules for self-gain and/or at the expense of decent people.
Riverside@reddthat.com · 4 pts · 190d
PhoenixDog@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 191d
Yup, I think it's appropriate. He punched someone at school. Actions have consequences no matter the reason behind it. I got suspended for a day because a bully had his hands around my throat and I cold cocked him in the side of the head.
It's what makes us better human beings than the right. We are perfectly okay with holding people we agree with accountable for their actions. I hope this kid has a great two day vacation from school. Sleep in and put your feet up, kid.
graycloud@leminal.space · 27 pts · 191d
You absolutely should not have been punished for defending yourself in that situation; strangulation is attempt at murder. Did anything happen to the other kid?
PhoenixDog@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 191d
Nope. Because schools and 'zero tolerance' policies protect abusers, not victims. by design. It's easier to punish the person lashing out and throwing punches vs someone deliberately trying to get you to kill yourself.
Just like we're seeing here in 2026 when my incident happened in 2003. I'm more pissed he didn't get anything rather than I got something. I happily took the suspension. I owned that with pride. It fell on a Friday so I had a 3 day weekend. My mom went into the school and tore the administration several new assholes. Fortunately after that I wasn't abused by him or anyone anymore other than faint insults like being called a 'fa**ot' by 6 dudes who were pants fabric away from touching dicks while I walked down the road holding hands with my new girlfriend.
I'm in my late 30s now. I've been married for 8 years and have two wonderful girlfriends in a poly relationship. He's divorced and barely gets to see his kids last I heard from friends back in my hometown. A quick Facebook search shows her with a new last name an kids with the new guy. So regardless of the past, I guess I won the life lottery.
graycloud@leminal.space · -2 pts · 191d
You seem to speculate that your bullies were jealous of you because you are more successful with women than they are, or because they were secretly gay. In my case, we had very little parental supervision and everyone bullied one another to some degree. We used to play a game of tag where the person who got caught by 'it' would be tied to a tree and lashed with a switch, and the person tied to a tree had to escape in order to become 'it.'
edit: So, this is supposed to be a cautonary tale against not watching your kids, not "admitting to bullying people smarter than me." All kids in my grade played this game together. Now that I know what kind of social space I am in, I will no longer be sharing any personal information with this crowd. Thanks for letting me know that you're nuts, or at least a nonzero number of you.
PhoenixDog@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 191d
I love how you admitted all of that, while I never suggested any of it. I never assumed anyone was 'secretly gay'. My point was my bullies were incredibly stupid people. They used basic insults because they thought it was funny regardless of the context. They were 6 dudes in close proximity calling a single man holding hands with a girl a 'fa**ot'. Not to mention I came out queer a few years ago so whatever you want to say about that won't make a lick of difference to me.
It's the intellectual significance, and lack thereof with the bullies. They're so stupid they just sling words to try to get a rise, not aware of the circumstance around it. No one with any critical thinking or intelligent thought would call a man with a woman on his arm a 'fa**ot' while the people slinging it are balls deep with other guys in a group huddle.
It's amazing how much you just admitted to being just that. A remarkably illiterate idiot who used to bully people smarter than you because you were a dumb insecure idiot.
graycloud@leminal.space · 1 pts · 191d
What?
I didn't bully people smarter than me, I'm saying this is a game we all played.
... man, whatever. I'm sorry that happened.
Darleys_Brew@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 191d
Is the person he punched also getting punished?
Darleys_Brew@lemmy.ml · 10 pts · 191d
But on the other hand he shouldn’t have to tolerate intolerance.
Formfiller@lemmy.world · 90 pts · 191d
If I was his parent I would’ve made those two days the best
TehWorld@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 191d
I’d have a stern talking to the lad, while he’s eating the biggest wad of cotton candy on whatever mega-rollercoaster is closest to our house.
PolarKraken@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 11 pts · 190d
Sternly: "ya did great son and everyone loves you. Ya punched a budding Nazi and made it both entertaining and endearing, there's no PR firm on earth who can ever stir even a shadow of what you did".
Taleya@aussie.zone · 9 pts · 190d
You know they did. Parents who raised a kid to punch nazis ain't gonna punish them for punching nazis
Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world · 81 pts · 191d
And a lifetime of cred.
Fucking legend.
MareOfNights@discuss.tchncs.de · 80 pts · 191d
Where gofundme?
diegantobass@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 191d
Yo srsly
ravenaspiring@sh.itjust.works · 18 pts · 191d
So far I don't think it exists. At least not with gofundme as it would violate their TOS apparently. Danny Spud has a site, but I'd question it (and won't post it because of that). Our brown hoodie hero is unnamed and hopefully will remain so for a while given the propensity of the right to be retributive in their violence.
leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 79 pts · 191d
More people should honour Punch a Nazi Day.
(In case of doubt, Punch a Nazi Day falls on any day that ends in ‘y’.)
TyrionBean@lemmy.ml · 78 pts · 190d
That kid is a fucking hero. I said so on Reddit when it happened, and I'm saying it here now as well. I condone his actions and, if more people did what he did, we would stand a better fighting chance against this loathsome menace currently destroying everything good in the USA and abroad.
tabarnaski@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 190d
While I generally agree that all Nazis must be punched, this can be counterproductive.
Look what's going on in France. A Nazi got into a brawl, died from his wounds, and now he's treated like a fucking national hero. The left in general are portrayed as terrorists.
Don't underestimate how efficient the right is at playing the victim.
grumpusbumpus@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 190d
It doesn't matter. They're getting what they want. You can play nice and let them have what they want, or you can take some risks, stand for what you believe in, and fight back.
Fighting back against school bullies is also "against the rules."
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 187d
As a kid, I had problems with bullies. Then I grew, trained, and fought back with increasing effectiveness. That ended it, and the suspensions I got along the way were a cost of doing the right thing.
dewbert@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 190d
I mean it may feel good to punch one of these Nazi's, but it doesn't mean it's helping. I love what this kid did, don't get me wrong. We absolutely need to fight back and stand for what we believe in, but getting violent, except out of defense, is unproductive and only deepens the wedge between the left and the right, making things worse.
VirtigoMommy@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 190d
Kid was walking through the high on attention with a big ol sign to advertise for an untrained, highly aggresive, indescriminatly brutal paramilitary force acting out of their jurisdiction and kidnapping people off of the streets mostly without even documenting where they take them. Kid knows damn well what he supports and wants everyone to know it.
There is a time for civil debate and there’s a time for punchin’
I think carrying a sign in support of ice should count as punchin’ worthy.
liuther9@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 190d
Its helping. They want you to keep silent. That is their main goal
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 187d
This is one of those categorical imperatives where it has its desired effect as long as everyone consistently does it.
If we don't resist, they'll lie and say we did. If we defend ourselves, they'll say we're violent. So doing nothing, or doing the minimum, is ineffective. In fact, not doing things because of worries about potential fascist reactions is nothing but cowardice that plays into their hands.
There should never be any unity between the left and the right, and the violent right shouldn't exist at all. If you'd like to eat a meal that's 50% horse shit, that's on you, but there are times when the only correct course of action is not to compromise. This is one.
grumpusbumpus@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 186d
People are going to have to do more than "punch Nazis" before long. If you're clutching pearls over some high school punches, you need to wake up.
ToTheGraveMyLove@sh.itjust.works · 15 pts · 190d
That just means they're not killing enough Nazis.
fibojoly@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 190d
And we need to crush this bullshit! Especially in Lyon it's absolutely mind-blowing that this little shit is allowed to even be recognized as a victim. We fucking judged Klaus Barbie in Lyon when I was a kid, and people dare to say a nazi is a victim. You've no idea how insane this whole thing is.
daannii@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 189d
Every time a Nazi gets punched , an angel 😇 gets their wings.
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 187d
Every unpunched Nazi makes the baby Jesus cry.
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 187d
I see no downsides at all as long as you don't explain why you're doing it and don't get caught.
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 189d
Did reddit ban you for promoting violence? Pigboy steve only allows conservatives leeway in what they post
TyrionBean@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 189d
No, though I did post specifically that I condone what he did. It wasn't that though. I'm dual national American and French. I grew up a lot in the USA, but I've been living in France for over ten years and I've chosen my side in this fight. To that end: I've been 100% serious about getting off of the American tech stack. I've left iCloud (Apple Music forthcoming) entirely, and been getting off of more and more non-EU/FOSS places. I've been blogging about it to help others. It's been rewarding. Lemmy was just another step to take. 😃👍
Orangemanbad@lemmy.world · -20 pts · 190d
ToTheGraveMyLove@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 190d
Oh look, a fascist troll. Blocked.
null@lemmy.org · 7 pts · 190d
This person really made an account just to dick ride a pedophile.
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 187d
So easy to fall off something that tiny.
meep_launcher@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 190d
The same agents who are raping, murdering, and molesting children in the ICE concentration camps? The same ones who brutalized, terrorized, and murdered people in communities so they could deport immigrants, 5% of whom have criminal records?
Yea okay I'll keep protesting.
Orangemanbad@lemmy.world · -11 pts · 190d
meep_launcher@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 190d
Just as a post script- I know I won't convince you to hate ice, but maybe I can convince you that I don't hate you. That the left doesn't hate you. I need to remember the right doesn't hate lil' ol queer me. We hate what we've been told about each other.
Renee Good's last words were "I'm not mad at you"
Orangemanbad@lemmy.world · -4 pts · 190d
crapwittyname@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 190d
Nobody would, you're right. And yet a whole lot of people do hate ICE. It's a thinker, that one, for sure.
crapwittyname@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 190d
meep_launcher@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 190d
If that's your bar, then we need to deport every Catholic priest and cop. They are much more likely to hurt someone I, or you, love.
We've been brainwashed into thinking some brown kid from across the border who's parents went through hell and back is the problem. Frankly, we've also been brainwashed into thinking the angry MAGA capped West Virginian is the problem. It's not.
You know the problem. It's your health insurance premiums. It's your cost of food. It's your cost of living. It's your pain. It's the same pain that made the brown folks come here and the West Virginian vote for a rapist convict.
That pain doesn't come from a made up immigrant eating a dog. It comes from a group of men that could fit in a school bus who have ensured we stay disconnected and dumb so they can rob us blind. ICE is here to enforce this belief, not keep us safe.
The only way out is to kill a king. The only way to kill a king is to trust your neighbors. 14% or 5%
Orangemanbad@lemmy.world · -4 pts · 190d
Atalkingcat13@lemmy.org · -20 pts · 190d
Yes open civil war is the way to go.
Tilgare@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 190d
Well last time we had the deplorable, violent racists trying to run the show, they had to be crushed into submission - so maybe, yeah. They must be shown that their vile ideas and actions have consequences. CLEARLY they haven't received enough consequences lately, given their utter lack of shame in . When it really comes down to it, I'd bet their small minority can't possibly put up a large enough fighting force willing to stick their necks our for racism anyways, certainly none of the octogenarian monsters at the top.
phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 187d
Yeah, much better to capitulate, historically that's always worked out well.
luthis@lemmy.nz · 68 pts · 191d
“I thought to myself, how can so many people be against law enforcement and officials trying to make our country better and safer?”
'Thought' is doing a lot of heavy lifting there
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 26 pts · 191d
Yeah, it would have to. What with the "trying to make our country better and safer?” part being more than a few imperial fucktons of the most putrid bullshit you've ever seen 🤷
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works · 65 pts · 190d
White privilage on full display
I got arrested and charged with "aggravated assault" and nearly expelled for self-defence against a racist bully. I'm not white.
We need more white kids to use their privilage for good
sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz · 15 pts · 190d
2-days seems pretty average for fighting in my experience.
RustyShackleford@programming.dev · -3 pts · 190d
wheezy@lemmy.ml · 63 pts · 191d
I can only hope I succeed in raising my kid to be as awesome as this kid.
WesternInfidels@feddit.online · 59 pts · 191d
Comic Sands had some background on this and I think it explains a lot:
Spud got exactly what he was hoping for, in other words. This was his plan, his plan worked, so he should be happy, right? I had felt like an "I Love ICE" sign, in this day and age, was pretty much incitement, and it turns out, it was exactly that. In a perfect world, there would be consequences for doing that.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world · 48 pts · 191d
Yeah, this take is BS.
If you hold a sign saying you’re pro-ICE, you’re pro-ICE. If you’re harassing people and pushing their buttons saying you’re pro-ICE, you are in fact pro-ICE. Anyone walking by will assume you are pro-ICE. It isn’t up to the viewer to perform a psychoanalysis of the person and calculate the odds of whether the person is lying, and if they're trolling… fuck ’em.
sober_monk@lemmy.world · 47 pts · 191d
luthis@lemmy.nz · 11 pts · 191d
Holy shit this is amazing
Taleya@aussie.zone · 18 pts · 191d
There kinda is. All the attention and glory is on the puncher, spud is a laughing stock. And it's gonna stay that way memetically
untorquer@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 190d
This post is the first time I've heard of him and I've seen the video and memes. At least for me you've done more to promote awareness of him than anyone else including spud himself.
WesternInfidels@feddit.online · 5 pts · 190d
This is the Tragedy of the Attention Economy (TM) I'm afraid.
untorquer@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 190d
Idk what you mean. I'd rather remember a good person. If his goal was attention then he failed utterly as the other kid got the credit
WesternInfidels@feddit.online · 1 pts · 190d
Even when we say "This guy is an asshat and we should all ignore him," we are giving the asshat some attention, which was his goal all along. It's actually not possible to arrange a coordinated response that doesn't give the asshat what he wants, because a coordinated response requires many people to understand the identity and nature of the asshat. Which is what he wants.
That's what I mean by "the tragedy of the attention economy."
untorquer@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 190d
Idk man, i forgot his name since i commented. Fast news cycle cuts both directions. Visuals and memes have a little bit more lasting impact. Punch nazis kid is much easier to remember.
ToTheGraveMyLove@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 190d
I think his name was Spuds Mackenzie.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 190d
he wants to be next right wing grifter.
Chozo@fedia.io · 59 pts · 191d
Of course the ICEhole is a narc. Deserved.
masterofn001@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 191d
Maybe it was because he was recording them with the creepy sex offender glasses that are only used by repervicans.
bravesilvernest@lemmy.ml · 55 pts · 191d
Ahhh OK, yea dude is gonna get a ton more of this reaction in his future.
ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 191d
The other kid was really just giving him some valuable life coaching. Though someone who wears Mets spyware and trolls other people for online views is almost certainly untrainable.
nandeEbisu@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 191d
nah, plenty of people do dumb shit as kids. People grow, hopefully he finds the right mentoring and life experiences to become more media literate and empathetic.
phaseshift@lemmy.zip · 52 pts · 191d
Should let us donate to his college fund
favoredponcho@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 191d
GutterRat42@lemmy.world · 51 pts · 191d
"you'll get in trouble" "you should have complied" evil men only succeed when good men let them.
Formfiller@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 191d
Good men don’t let them
glitchdx@lemmy.world · 48 pts · 190d
This kid has done more for his country than most of us here combined. Respect.
johncandy1812@lemmy.ca · 47 pts · 190d
For me it was the little clap he did before swinging. Gets me every time.
PolarKraken@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 14 pts · 190d
I can't get enough of that either and while all the great memes do the lad justice, I can't help but feel we're all robbed by the way they don't capture the eager, self-satisfied "I can't wait to deliver this L", delicious, audible little clap 😭
Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works · 46 pts · 190d
"Student" is a funny way to spell "Absolute Gigachad Legend" but OK.
Gerudo@lemmy.zip · 45 pts · 191d
I hope that kid gets punched every time he "peacefully protests". This should be the next tiktok challenge.
Witchfire@lemmy.world · 41 pts · 191d
Worth it to become an internet hero
Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de · 40 pts · 191d
Feels weird to work in Zürich, Switzerland and see Lake Zürich every day, and then read about a random US highschool on the outskirts of Chicago being called "Lake Zurich High School"
PolarKraken@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 190d
Wait til ya hear about all the many places and things in the US named after the literal tribes of humans who once lived in roughly that exact spot 😐
JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org · 6 pts · 190d
It's also the name of the lake at the center of the village in Illinois.
Makes sense why that would feel weird tho
dankm@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 190d
All of North America is weird like that. I live within an easy drive of Stockholm, Kandahar, Amsterdam, Strasbourg, Aberdeen, Hague, and Moose Jaw.
Small_Quasar@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 190d
I'm Scottish and once or twice a year will drive through the original Dallas. These days it's just a single row of about two dozen houses (it has the remnants of a medieval castle though).
Must have been pretty trippy living there in the 80s when one of the biggest shows on American and British TV was Dallas.
dankm@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 190d
Oh, I didn't even mention the towns we have that are named after much smaller places. Our Calgary is much bigger than the original, and I also live near a Colonsay, which while tiny is about double the size of the one in Scotland.
bravesirrbn@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 189d
Yeah but Lake Zurich? Imagine founding a town and calling it "The Mediterranean Sea" or something lol
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 190d
I recently learned about this place called Paris... in Texas https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris,_Texas
Bassman1805@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 190d
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 190d
🤣
cdf12345@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 190d
Look at the city names in the southern and central part of Illinois, there’s a ton of towns and cities named after European locations
Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 190d
Haha the random occurrence of Altorf is fun.
Altdorf is the capital of our canton of Uri. Which is one of the early members of the first alliances that later became Switzerland under Napoleon. There is also a founding myth around Wilhelm Tell, not tenable with modern historical understanding, but still very popular. In that myth Altdorf is an important location too.
The interesting thing is that Altorf is an older spelling that we used to use. Now its Altdorf, literally alt + dorf, old + village, but I guess whoever brought the name to the US did so before the spelling was reformed! Cool detail.
A7thStone@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 190d
Wait till you hear about Texas NY. It's in Mexico NY.
Fokeu@lemmy.zip · 39 pts · 191d
Worth it
StraponStratos@lemmy.sdf.org · 38 pts · 190d
Now ban the meta loser for recording students
anguo@piefed.ca · 37 pts · 191d
...yeah.
frunch@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 191d
Those fucking things really bother me. If anyone would go around conspicuously recording everyone and everything in front of their face, some people would definitely have a problem with it. Making the camera less conspicuous doesn't change how people feel about being recorded by randos. It's not like people can't find sneaky ways to record their surroundings but to try to make it acceptable or mainstream to do so and to provide the masses with the means is exceptionally shitty
boaratio@lemmy.world · 36 pts · 191d
Dude is a fucking legend.
6stringringer@lemmy.zip · 35 pts · 191d
It took him those entire two days to read all the congratulations in his inbox.
moopet@sh.itjust.works · 35 pts · 190d
Received a 2-day standing ovation you say?
SabinStargem@lemmy.today · 33 pts · 191d
I hope the kid is an reincarnation of this fellow.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 191d
Teddy also bathed nude in the Potomac in all weathers. Once he went with the French ambassador who insisted on keeping his gloves on in case they encountered any ladies.
BowtiesAreCool@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 191d
I hope not too much, teddy was wildly racist against Native Americans
SabinStargem@lemmy.today · 10 pts · 191d
Granted, Teddy was an imperialist bastard. However, he had many good qualities - such as confronting the Trusts of his time, risking his own flesh and blood in battle, creating the national parks, and genuine loyalty to America.
Ideally, this kid would embody the best traits of Teddy and ditch the nasty parts.
Soggy@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 190d
By the standards of US presidents it wasn't even that bad. More White Man's Burden than bounties for scalps.
arsCynic@piefed.social · 32 pts · 191d
👊 Video: https://imgur.com/gallery/bully-gets-punched-lake-zurich-high-school-ULQcz74
luthis@lemmy.nz · 29 pts · 191d
'You can go peacefully fuck yourself'
pelespirit@sh.itjust.works · 15 pts · 191d
ThunderComplex@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 191d
Thanks. Hadn’t seen it until now and this post made me wanna look it up n I thought I was going crazy cause I could not find it anywhere
tatterdemalion@programming.dev · 1 pts · 190d
Shame it didn't seem to connect.
sepi@piefed.social · 31 pts · 191d
My hero. No more Nazis on my fucking planet.
CircaV@lemmy.ca · 30 pts · 191d
Hero.
libre_warrior@lemmy.ml · 29 pts · 190d
Punch fascists!
null@lemmy.org · 13 pts · 190d
It's basically a form of self-defense.
CADmonkey@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 189d
I forget where I read it recently: "the trouble you get in for punching a fascist is less than the trouble you get in for not punching them."
ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca · 28 pts · 191d
That Spud kid should've been suspended for inciting violence.
III@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 191d
Yeah, he clearly was inciting. He chose to provoke others to get a video for his online followers. Even had his meta glasses recording - verbally trolling people.
What a piece of shit.
ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca · 3 pts · 191d
The worst part is, even though he was obviously seeking to provoke, the "authorities" still defended him and punished the other guy because he was "peacefully expressing his views".
But when your ideology and your views are intolerance and hate, there's nothing peaceful about it. It's inherently violent and should be treated as such. And supporting ICE and their concentration camps is essentially approving of the trauma and deaths that this organization has caused.
Mwa@thelemmy.club · 27 pts · 190d
they should give the kid a award not suspension
Glytch@lemmy.world · 44 pts · 190d
A kid getting two-day out of school suspension is like a cop getting paid leave. If I were his parent there would be no punishment at home and probably a new game (or Fortnite skins or whatever) of his choice to enjoy on his suspension.
wabasso@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 190d
lol @ Fortnite skins. He is worthy.
yermaw@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 190d
He earned his sweet drip
fibojoly@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 190d
Shit I would even let him buy shoes with his V-bucks, at this point.
87Six@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 190d
I wouldn't even be thinking about a punishment
libre_warrior@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 190d
Either way, its a slap on the wrist, but also a badge of honor.
WhatSaid@lem.ugh.im · 24 pts · 191d
Ragebaiting irl, see what happens
Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club · 21 pts · 191d
All the hi5s when he got back prob packed some punch.
Also, lmao, I know it's a thing over there, but I still did not expect security & cops at the scene by default (def did expect them be quick about protecting the ICE enthusiast).
(Also bonus funny double-take - it's Lake Zurich, Illinois.)
ThunderQueen@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 191d
Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club · 4 pts · 191d
Between the constant presence of (armed??) cops, flag allegiance thing, the sus history lessons, and Chrome laptops ... idk man, feels freen't & it saddens me when I think about it.
kreskin@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 191d
agreed, Uvalde demonstrated pretty thoroughly that school resource officers are not there for emergencies at all and should be abolished. They are low iq freeloader parasites there to LARP and provide security theater.
Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club · 3 pts · 191d
I bet no LARPer is paid that good.
Do you think they can claim PTSD extra pension from the mean girls baking oinking noises at them?
PhoenixDog@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 191d
They're there to stop kids from punching each other. But if someone shows up with a weapon, they're out.
Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club · 1 pts · 191d
Should have brought an ice shiv to an ICE fight? :D
FatVegan@leminal.space · 2 pts · 191d
I was really confused reading this, because i thought: lake zürich, Switzerland?
ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online · 20 pts · 190d
I fucking love this guy. He is as cool as the egg kid.
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 189d
A ska band made a song about the egg boy
https://youtu.be/hUCVAOY76xo
Professorozone@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 190d
If I were him... Totally worth it.
KingPapaDaddy@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 189d
I'd pay his bail
alonsohmtz@feddit.uk · 17 pts · 190d
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip · 16 pts · 190d
Are you there, Luigi? It's a-me, Mario.
FollyDolly@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 190d
And my axe!
ricecake@sh.itjust.works · 15 pts · 190d
We can do both!
Redvenom@retrolemmy.com · 16 pts · 191d
book me for another 2 next wek
tired_n_bored@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 190d
I salute this man.
KeenFlame@feddit.nu · 15 pts · 190d
What the fuck is a "pro ice" sign??
Does it say like.. i want assault rifle policemen to abduct anyone without due process? Or like "I want to be an officer in the war against other races"? What does it even say?
VitoRobles@lemmy.today · 18 pts · 190d
Edgy kid thinks it's cool to the opposite.
Getting punched in the face is how you correct this. I'm not joking here. Cause and effect is a important life lesson that needs to be taught.
betanumerus@lemmy.ca · 18 pts · 190d
oopsgodisdeadmybad@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 190d
The phrase "food shelter" just makes me think of rooms formed by stacks of food product boxes.
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 190d
The outer walls of my bunker are lined with old-school Shredded Wheat boxes.
KeenFlame@feddit.nu · 1 pts · 189d
The beets all hunker in a corner around drum fires and dream about simpler times
rumba@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 190d
TwodogsFighting@lemdro.id · 3 pts · 190d
It's just a swastika.
Treczoks@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 190d
Not all heroes wear capes. Thank you, young man, for your courage to tackle this idiot.
Patrikvo@lemmy.zip · 14 pts · 191d
Eh, if the stars align, pro-ice dude might get a meet-and-greed with his heros.
6stringringer@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 190d
It would be funny and I mean lol funny if That Kyle”Cookie Boi Killah” Keeblerhouse fucker accidentally shot that little shit instigator.
Areldyb@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 190d
Okay.
kreskin@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 191d
AKA his school rewarded him with a trip to Disneyland-- or wherever is the equivalent for him. I hope he has fun and enjoys his celebrity. He earned it. Future leadership material right there. At least one kid was taught critical thinking skills.
VibeSurgeon@piefed.social · 10 pts · 190d
New gigachad just dropped
lechekaflan@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 191d
Little Muskrat tries FAFO and gets rightfully whacked.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 9 pts · 191d
Should've received a medal.
grumpusbumpus@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 190d
Gyatdam, I'm making magnets of this and posting them everywhere.
JustAGuy@lemmy.org · 8 pts · 189d
Well that was rude. don't know why they gave him 2 days.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 189d
they almost never punish the bullies.
AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 191d
Nice, bro got a bit of vacation.
melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 190d
Suspended with pay, I hope. /s
enteroninternet@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 190d
Thank you for my new dp.
webp@mander.xyz · 6 pts · 191d
okay
RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 190d
We should crowdfund to send that kid some John Brown and Will Sherman merch.
MehBlah@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 191d
I haven't heard of one but surely there is a go fund me for this kids continued education?
Gammelfisch@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 190d
He should have waited for a sport event to clock the asswipe MAGAt.
stefenauris@pawb.social · 2 pts · 190d
Can always count on that zero tolerance policies that schools implement 🙄
presoak@lazysoci.al · 0 pts · 191d
Did the puncher/friends/family get assaulted by ice? I mean is there a backstory beyond "I read about it on reddit"?
Crankenstein@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 190d
Nothing is known as far as I know. It is just the fallout of a viral video where this kid tells another, who was openly advocating for ICE, that he is gonna punch them in the face, gets told "you're gonna get in trouble", then responds with "okay" and decks the douchebag.
And frankly, that's all the context I believe is needed. You see someone openly supporting fascist oppression, you deck that fucker square in the jaw, consequences be damned.
presoak@lazysoci.al · -2 pts · 190d
Well there's the kind of fascist oppression that you see via reddit and there's the kind that you see in person. They are quite different things.
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 190d
Tbf most of the fascist oppression you see via reddit is committed by spez.
Crankenstein@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 190d
Dude, what the fuck are you yammering about? Just go watch the fucking video and see for yourself.
presoak@lazysoci.al · -2 pts · 190d
It's what we call a "question". Google the word if you must.
Crankenstein@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 190d
Yea, your first comment was a question which was then answered in full. Then you made some nonsense comment trying to split hairs about what counts as "fascist oppression" to which I then asked my question of "what the fuck are you even on about" that you are actively avoiding giving a straight answer to.
That fence-sitting bullshit is very poor taste and your smug attitude about being called out on it is even worse. Something tells me you're not here in good faith.
presoak@lazysoci.al · -2 pts · 190d
No actually it wasn't.
Drink the moral outrage. Feed on it. Let it obliterate your consciousness.
Crankenstein@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 190d
Okay, you're apparently just a fucking idiot and not worth actually engaging with.
Hope you get the help you need to be a better person.
Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world · -4 pts · 191d
Libs of tiktok has already started posting about this kid. The left didn't bother to figure out how to defend their own. Confrontation is icky. They're going to cook him
Jankatarch@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 191d
Tbf the main target audience is 14 in tiktok so nuanced takes like "violence is ok sometimes" are too high of an expectation.
Tedesche@lemmy.world · -31 pts · 191d
Good. Political violence is never justified against people simply holding signs. That student should be charged with assault and punished according to the law. People defending them here are no better than ICE agents. Fuck y’all.
zbyte64@awful.systems · 26 pts · 191d
Yup. People defending this boy are literally as bad as those people checks notes who shoot your neighbor in the face and conduct warrantless searches and arrests. Literally can't tell the difference. Fuck you for disagreeing.
qaeta@lemmy.ca · 15 pts · 191d
Found another Nazi!
Soleos@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 191d
People who cannot discern context or degrees of wrong are no better than ICE agents. Love you
Skankboot@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 191d
Lol
ToTheGraveMyLove@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 190d
"Political violence is never justified against people holding signs promoting political violence."
Like dude, what the fuck. Read the room.
HalfSalesman@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 190d
dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de · 0 pts · 191d
Now I don’t think people here Asa’s bad a a life agents but I do agree that violence like that isn’t acceptable, even if you tell them first you’re going to punch them in the face like this dude.
If you do condone this then you can’t condemn it when a right winger dude punches you in the face or someone “on your side”.
ToTheGraveMyLove@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 190d
There's a difference between punching someone over a difference of opinion and punching someone who is literally promoting violence and hate. One is escalation, the other is returning fire. Being pro-violence and hate isn't a matter of opinion, its a disease that needs to be eradicated, by force if necessary.
WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca · 0 pts · 190d
Nah.
DragonOracleIX@lemmy.ml · -53 pts · 190d
Are we normalizing political violence now?
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip · 23 pts · 190d
Are you for real?
Our government literally is political violence.
We are passed the point of being couth in response. You can't fight fire with warm hugs.
I kinda honestly hope this kid goes down in history as the punch heard around the world.
TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today · 23 pts · 190d
Untrained masked men kidnapping children from schools doesn't entail political violence?
Enabling or advocating for these actions is a form of political violence itself. Himmler never killed anyone himself, does that mean he disengaged from the use of political violence?
Sunflier@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 190d
Found a brown noser.
Dude, sucking up to the Nazis won't get you healthcare.
Taleya@aussie.zone · 20 pts · 190d
Awww. you think you're immune
RustyShackleford@programming.dev · 17 pts · 190d
One doesn't have to normalize it. It's already "normal".
Are we pretending that "political violence" hasn't historically been an attribute of the human experience in nearly every nation/state/country on this planet for millennia now?
mycodesucks@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 190d
bold_atlas@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 190d
No. You and your fascist buddies are normalizing political violence.
We're normalizing proactive peace.
Jaysyn@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 190d
Fascists don't get civility.
bitjunkie@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 190d
Nope they already did
87Six@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 190d
Every time someone from there posts, the .ml stereotype is confirmed
AceOnTrack@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 0 pts · 190d
That's not political violence, that's teaching manners.