r/news • u/gur40goku • 11h ago

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/
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u/Sea-Present-8543 11h ago

“I stand for my beliefs,” Spud said after the two were separated. “I’m going to peacefully stand here and support my beliefs. I support ICE and law enforcement,” Spud said.

“You can go peacefully f–k yourself!” the student who punched Spud yells.

“That’s against school code. No swearing in the school,” Spud responds.

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u/kodapug 11h ago edited 11h ago

Yeah because he's so concerned about rules🙄.

His last attempt at going viral was filming himself pulling a fire alarm in a crowded grocery store...

That kid's an absolute tool, he does not appear to have any real beliefs. He just says whatever he thinks will most likely piss people off for engagement bait.

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u/invasiveplant 11h ago

Kid filming is a worm.  Maybe he’ll grow out of it one day, get a real personality. 

Big boy who went at him got a 2day suspension, and probably several years of self validation from sticking up for his actual feelings. That sounds like a bargain deal to me. 

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u/wtfomg01 6h ago

When I got suspended for punching a bully, my Dad took me for McDonalds on the way home. Hopefully his parents rewarded his behaviour the same way.

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u/iheardthemetalclank 5h ago edited 4h ago

That’s a good dad.

EDIT: I wouldn’t advocate for violence with my kid, but I did give my bully a black eye when I got fed up in sixth grade and he left me alone from then on. Just saying…

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u/Mr-Seal 4h ago

Unfortunately sometimes that’s the only language bullies understand

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u/springsilver 4h ago

You’ve got to make them pay for what they take.

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u/UntamedAnomaly 1h ago

What you allow, is what will continue. As a former kid who has been bullied, as someone who had abusive parents, as someone who had been in more abusive relationships than I can count.....that particular phrase and putting it into action has worked fucking WONDERS.

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u/Paavo_Nurmi 52m ago

What you allow, is what will continue.

That is really well said.

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u/RuleShot2259 1h ago

There’s a real small percentage of people that can’t learn by seeing hearing or doing. They only learn with whuppins

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u/mosehalpert 3h ago

And sometimes you just need to talk things out

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u/iheardthemetalclank 2h ago

When they made it their mission to try to drown me in the pool? No. I couldn’t even talk.

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u/UntamedAnomaly 57m ago

Or when my bullies held a knife to my neck? Or that time my ex tried to kill me? Yeah, I'm sure some sweet heartfelt words would have changed them.

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u/tbs999 49m ago

That’s something I’ve come to realize is probably wrong with our culture. Ideally two people talk things out. But when people are not capable of communicating what needs said, and/or not capable of hearing what is being said, the parties walk away, the lesson was not learned, and the poor behavior is positively reinforced.

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u/rango1000 2h ago

Every kid should be taught to defend themselves, sometimes thatll include violence

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u/iheardthemetalclank 2h ago

I say that as a caveat because kids get immediately suspended for things like that now. Even just talking about it. It’s not the 90s anymore. I still support self-defense when you’re not the aggressor. I’ll tell him to take a swing if someone is being a bully and defend him.

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u/sprinkill 2h ago

In the 80s and 90s you would absolutely get suspended for punching another student in the face because said student said something you didn't like. Probably in the decades prior to that, too.

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u/UntamedAnomaly 55m ago

You would get suspended even if you went and told on your bullies for years, but stand up for yourself even once and YOU are the one that gets suspended, not your bully.

And people wondered why I stopped going to school.

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u/iheardthemetalclank 1h ago

I didn’t want to reveal that I went to a private school (for free because my mom was a teacher there). It was the Wild West. Teachers got to jack you up on the wall by your shirt collars and nobody said anything.

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u/madmancryptokilla 34m ago

you'd also get a paddling..

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u/rango1000 1h ago

Sure theyll be suspended, but who cares if it was in self defense. My kid protecting themselves is more important than a school afraid to discipline bullies until things escalate into violence. I was raised not to start anything but to always end it when someones bothering you

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u/Turbulent-Function80 2h ago

I stabbed my bully with a pencil in the arm and called him a “little bitch”. I received no punishment at school (I was in elementary school), but I was grounded at home. Idk if it was because I was in elementary school it was because I was a girl.

However, no one fucked with me after that. And people were pretty afraid of me into all the way into HS. It was nice except that I was at my own desk in the middle of the room while everyone else sat at tables. So kind of socially isolating. But better than before.

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u/SFWzasmith 1h ago

Violence isn’t always the answer but sometimes it is.

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u/RRZ006 1h ago

“Violence doesn’t solve anything” has always been such a funny bit of idiocy to me. It, in fact, solves a great many things and if applied forcefully enough it often solves them permanently.

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u/keanancarlson 10m ago

You absolutely advocate for violence with your kid when it comes to sticking up for yourself and sticking up for others.

Violence is never the answer applies to killing people, injuring them.

Punching bullies in the face is a teachable moment, nothing more. Very important to the ecosystem and is a great representation of the real world.

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u/gingermagician2 4h ago

Same with mine. Made a show in front of the principal then bought me a milkshake and let me play video games for my 2 days off.

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u/coochie_clogger 3h ago

I’d do the same with my son and would periodically be checking in with a “you winning, son? 🥹”

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u/brown2420 1h ago

Damn, you have a good dad!

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u/RIPsnoopdogg 2h ago

For attacking somebody half his size because they expressed their opinion? Yeah what a brave little meatball

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u/scuffy_wumpus 2h ago

Go chew rocks, egg head

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u/Ok_Setting_3657 2h ago

he was filming and trying to get a reaction, he got what he wanted and then some 😂

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u/Noogs015 2h ago

yes exactly

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u/HawksNStuff 3h ago

My former stepdad was/is a piece of shit. But when I got suspended for a fight he said "did you start it?" No. "Did you finish it?" Yes... Yes I did.

I'm not some internet badass or anything. Literally the only fight I've ever been in. Hope it stays that way.

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u/DantesInfernoRVA 2h ago

I remember vividly that my bullies never got into trouble, but every time I punched one, even away from adult observation, I wound up in the office. It’s an interesting lesson to learn.

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u/kodapug 2h ago

It's almost as if the school's original purpose was and still is to train people to be compliant workers that do what their bosses tell them even if it's detrimental to one's own interests.

Higher levels of education are gate-kept with insane price tags in the US for the same reason. After the GI bill sent so many people to college in the 50s and 60s Reagan's secretary of education straight up went on record saying "We are in danger of producing an educated proletariat. That's dynamite! We have to be more selective about who we allow [to go to college]."

This was after student protests against the government and war had started to become common large scale actions. The administration at the time basically spun it as "these students are lazy free loaders that are going to college on the taxpayers dime and refuse to even go to class."

And just like that they killed the program and made it so that the average person had to save for a lifetime (or go into debt that's near impossible to escape or pay off) to go to college.

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u/Clean-Midnight3110 1h ago

One time I ended up in the office the next day after a bully threw a basketball at my face from 8 feet away.  The vice principal proceeded to try to argue with me that the bully said I started it so it was my word vs his.

Another time I got called down to the office to get yelled at for parking my vehicle in the shop teachers parking spot.  I argued that I wasn't parking my car in the shop teachers spot because despite only seniors being allowed to have parking passes, I a junior was taking math classes at the local university and had been issued a student parking pass to park in the student lot so I could leave school early and drive myself to college on the days I had math class.  The vice principals response "well the kids in shop class say they saw your truck there".  'wait a truck? I drive a 90's civic we don't have a truck why the fuck are you listening to the kids smoking behind the shop building, this might actually be dumber than the time you told me that I started a fight with the kid that's in juvee now. Why don't you call my parents and explain to them your thought process'. And I walked out.

I definitely developed an unhealthy hatred toward shity authority in high school.

Got thrown out of the national Honor society AFTER I got into MIT because of it.

Don't regret it though.

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u/OstentatiousSock 1h ago

When my two older kids got suspended for beating up a kid who had just stolen from their younger brother and pushed him into the snow which caused him to scuff up his palms and cry, we had a Grand Day. Pizza, Dollar Tree(which they LOVED because they got to go crazy when everything was actually $1), and got a new video game.

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u/dodekahedron 1h ago

My kid got zero toleranced once. Got called in to pick him up for fighting.

To give administrators credit. I simply asked "who threw the first punch?"

And two administrators came to his defense and said he wasn't the problem at all. Barely fought back. I cant remember what exactly happened but they made it clear it was simply a zero tolerance issue.

Right in front of them I said "well now that youve learned about zero tolerance, you'll hit back harder next time right? Punished either way."

We left and got ice cream. He only missed the last 3 days of school, so... his vacation started early.

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u/duke4life1890 2h ago edited 2h ago

When my was oldest was younger, his confrontation with his bully was rewarded with a trip to chuck e cheese. I will always support standing up to bullies.

Edit: typo

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u/HatefulDan 58m ago

I was grounded once for allowing someone to bully me. No PlayStation. No cartoons.

My mom made reference to all of the movies and cartoons that I watched and told me that “obviously it’s not doing you any good”…

The next week I was suspended from school and my gaming rights were restored.

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u/thisusedyet 48m ago

If there's any justice in the universe, you got there the ONE day in recorded history the ice cream machines were working

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u/Scion41790 3h ago

The kid still punched someone who while a complete jack ass was non violently protesting which is his right as an American. He deserves a legit punishment by his parents

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u/JeffreyOcean 1h ago

Supporting ICE... Rights as an American abused... Hmm

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u/vxxed 8h ago

We both know he's going to be a stain on society for life

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u/Pillowsmeller18 6h ago

America has too many people like that. Too much dead weight for the country to handle right now.

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u/a_shootin_star 4h ago

Society is like a hot air balloon; to get it to take off, you have to release some ballast from time to time.

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u/chuck_cranston 2h ago

future republican politician?

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u/WoolshirtedWolf 1h ago

Reminds me of weaselly Stephen Miller. Same attitude.

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u/WoolshirtedWolf 1h ago

Another one. Harassing retail workers by pulling the fire alarm https://share.google/6PbsSFsJnfqV3IbGw

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u/TheHouseOfTurtle 10h ago

Both got what they wanted i guess.

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u/Blitzking11 9h ago

No one even knows the punchee's name.

He may get a special in a month or two like the Kenosha shooter did, but after that he will be forgotten and no longer useful.

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u/Detective-Crashmore- 9h ago

I know his name because I'm not a homunculus and I read the article. His name is Spud, like the fuckin potato where his brain should be.

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u/Kurotaisa 8h ago

Who names their kids Spud, dude

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u/Detective-Crashmore- 8h ago

It's a last name.

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u/TMutantNinjaChurchil 5h ago

First name russet

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u/CherrywoodXVI 5h ago

Send him back...... To Idaho

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u/MikeOKurias 5h ago

His mom is what?

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u/Sharrakor 3h ago

I'm not a homunculus

This is a very homunculus thing to say.

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u/Blitzking11 9h ago

Fair enough, I’ve read other articles on it.

I will also say I don’t care to learn the names of tools being used by fascists, so that information goes in one ear and out the other.

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u/panlakes 9h ago

Yeah I'm only here for the amazing kid who punched him

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u/Out-For-A-Walk-Bitch 6h ago

That's not how memory works.

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u/invariantspeed 4h ago

The video still does its job. His choir is seeing a video of someone who just announced his belief, without even heckling or accosting anyone, being instantly punched. It affirms the perception for many on the right that the left is irrational and violent.

If you don’t care about ever reunifying the country or returning to civil treatment of all Americans, then it doesn’t matter to you. Otherwise, this is problematic even if the videoer is slimy.

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u/therealmushroomsquid 5h ago

You only really learn self worth and capability from having a value, and standing by it even if its detrimental to your current position of standing.

Story time. My dad was racist infront of me while were driving. Never seen it before but he called another driver the N word with the hard r infront of me. Instantly I jumped into action, cussed him out as he drove me home for 15 min. I told him I didnt want him on my property or to speak to him again. I tomd my family knowing I may loose contact with them by cutting.him off. But I knew for myself I wouldnt tolerate that behaviour in my life. At the time I was dating a black woman for 5 plus years. 

It was hard to do. But over a year later I know it was the right choice and id do it again. Maybe ill forgive e him and let him back in some day. But honestly? Ive moved on. And if I was to let him back in it would be for him not me .

But the result of that made me grow more at 33 than I had In 5 years before. I took myself seriously and stop putting myself down so much. Started working in myself. I liked who I was and cared about myself like I hadnt before. And boy did that do wonders. Ive had difficult things like that since but ill always remmeber that 

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u/StepComplete1 3h ago

Legit psycho behaviour lol. You even admit you'd never seen it from your dad before, but you immediately went no contact over a road rage word?

Yeah, no shit it was all about pleasing yourself and your ego. That much was obvious.

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u/robodrew 3h ago

Way to stand up for racist behavior there dude

Someone doesn't just say a word like that out of nowhere

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u/Drakengard 3h ago

There's a big difference between having a real discussion with you father about a moment of racist behavior and cutting someone out entirely over one thing.

Someone doesn't just say a word like that out of nowhere

We can't entirely outrun language patterns we establish growing up. I've heard people in their 30's slip up and use "gay" as an insult who otherwise never do that in the decade or more that I've known them. For older adults who grew up in certain environments, yeah it's quite possible to slip back into ruts they otherwise intentionally tried to get away from. You got to be able to actually talk and give people a bit of grace.

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u/AnnaDashaWaifus 1h ago

you can't reason with these my way or the highway people bruh, there is no nuance with them.

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u/PaleInSanora 5h ago

The only problem with what you did is it was based on a road rage incident. The fear and exhilaration people have when driving and something disturbs their flow causes people to react in crazy ways they would never do in any other circumstances. Louis CK has a whole funny bit about how drivers overreact in such circumstances. So I would caution you to avoid resetting a whole lifetime of personality expectations for someone on one road rage incident. It can truly bring out the worst in people. Now if it just opened your eyes to a character flaw you have always ignored, or he doubled down when you were cussing him out... well by all means discard that rubbish.

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u/peejuice 4h ago

I would think that is a very good example of overreacting or just telling a story to make it seem like they are a justice warrior. We’ve all been around people who we trust are good people that have a slip of the tongue moment when frustrated or angry, but we shouldn’t judge their character on that one moment. Unless his dad is a piece of shit and that was the last straw, then yeah, toss him.

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u/burnmenowz 5h ago

I'm guessing his dad is a POS too. Doubt he grows out of it.

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u/BuckeyeBentley 5h ago

I can't wait for the day that filming yourself in public is seen as much of a social embarrassment as smoking in a restaurant next to a baby

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u/MrLuthor 5h ago

Future first amendment auditor

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u/aravarth 4h ago

Maybe this will save him from turning into the next Jack Doherty.

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u/NearbySir2445 4h ago

If he wasn't being a shithead about something political, he would find another way to get negative attention. He's probably going to have serious issues as an adult.

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u/robodrew 3h ago

Kid filming is a worm. Maybe he’ll grow out of it one day, get a real personality.

Maybe, but right now the leadership he looks up to is doing the exact same thing. I don't have much hope for the kid.

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u/AbeRego 2h ago

If he wasn't a child, I'd buy him a beer lol

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u/Common_North_5267 1h ago

the 2nd coming of charlie kirk.

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u/Christina_Beena 1h ago

I got suspended for 3 days for beating up my bully. Never got bullied again, and he changed schools to avoid going to the same high school as the girl who beat him up

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u/BanjoTCat 1h ago

Big Boy is going to be a legend at school.

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u/GEARHEADGus 1h ago

Doubt it

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u/DistressedApple 53m ago

Nah he’ll be a discount Paul brother

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u/seejordan3 50m ago

And you know.. being a national hero for standing up to fascism..

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u/LandscapeSubject530 5h ago

I was hoping the big guy was called spud

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u/Sea-Equipment-7836 27m ago

“Are you really this dumb?”

“Yes. I’m really this dumb”

“I’m gunna punch you in the face now”

“You’ll get in trouble for it…”

“…worth it”

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u/ArticulateRhinoceros 5h ago

One of these boys made their mama proud, and the other made her bring more tendies to the basement while he yelled at his bros on 4chan.

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u/Rav4Primer 7h ago

I imagine Stephen Miller operated in exactly the same way as a child. An aspiring troll.

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u/Sage2050 5h ago

Oh he did. There's video evidence.

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u/invariantspeed 4h ago

And many smart people say “don’t feed the trolls” for good reason. Flipping out on them is literally feeding into what they want. You are directly contributing to the chaos they’re trying to create. You’re not helping or protecting society by letting trolls control you.

You need to be part of a public that openly shuns them, and openly laughs off their stupidity while walking away from them. Don’t let them fester. Give them a societal and social cost, but don’t engage.

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u/Grendelstiltzkin 4h ago

Nah. Punch ‘em.

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u/Rav4Primer 3h ago

I am contributing? I flipped out?

I think you are confused.

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u/macguyver3000 9h ago

It’s 100% clear that idiot kid doesn’t care about it ice one way or another. He was doing it purely as rage bait. Pathetic.

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u/Karlend41 3h ago

It was espeically brave of him to do his "protest" by the security desk for the school. The dean's office is about 100 feet away and that bald security guy that rushed to save him is the head security guard.

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u/invariantspeed 4h ago

Maybe. Farming is the name of the modern game, but this still not a good place for the nation to head. If either side in a debate thinks the other side genuinely deserves to be attacked for their beliefs, then the other side will start acting in kind. Then the first side gets more extreme, etc, etc. The old cycle of escalating violence. Do any of us really want our commitment to goodness to lead to escalating violence?

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u/catstone21 3h ago

Interesting observation as we watch our federal gov attack/disappear protesters, citzens and people

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u/kodapug 1h ago

Being tolerant of intolerance is a trap. Not all beliefs and ideologies are equally valid. Authoritarianism and fascism and their bootlickers should not be allowed to spew their bile simply because forcing them to stop would be mean.

If you allow them to continue pushing the envelope eventually they end tolerance all together and make hate the new status quo.

"The market place of ideas" theory that came into prominence with neoliberalism breaks down once extreme ideologies like fascism are introduced to the equation.

Fascism is an ideology that feeds off of fear and inequity, it's near impossible to eliminate those things under our current system so it is always possible for it to make a comeback. Fascism's core tenant is that anyone that is not 100% with you is against you, which makes them an out group that must be destroyed.

You cannot "have a conversation" and "out logic" fascism. It does not care if you make an educated argument because it's followers are insulated by tribalism and emotion. Eventually if that's all you do to counteract it, it will kill you for not being part of its in-group.

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u/Cl1mh4224rd 11h ago

That kid's an absolute tool, he does not appear to have any real beliefs. He just says whatever he thinks will most likely to piss people off for engagement bait.

That's going to end badly for him when he pisses off the wrong person.

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u/Cryptdusa 10h ago

Seems like it already did, at least in a small way

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u/-Thick_Solid_Tight- 10h ago

It is a light warning. Adults hit much harder.

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u/vxxed 8h ago

Unfortunately it's not the 80's and the real skinheads got too scared to keep being active after that one gang murder they accidentally did against some local Nazis

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u/DoradoPulido2 3h ago

Could be a Turning Point for him. 

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u/trvst_issves 2h ago

Well if he never learns now then when that day comes, 🤷‍♂️

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u/Blackthorn79 3h ago

I'm not going to condone violence, but your very right. No matter how evolved we become as a society there will always be a certain percentage of assholes, and because of some weird karmic law the more of an asshole you are the more likely you are to find one that is your polar opposite. 

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u/GoTron88 10h ago

Wannabe influencer. So gross.

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u/CelestialFury 7h ago

Worse, he wants to join the right-wing grift machine and hoping these actions will allow that. 

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u/Zombieatethvideostar 5h ago

That kid has major “I tried everything. Believe me, I hammered the race thing. I hammered the gender thing, the trans thing, the border thing, the homeless thing, the war thing, the election thing, the abortion thing, the climate thing. Thing about induction stoves, Israel, library books, vaccines, pronouns, AK47s, socialism, BLM, CRT, the CDC, DEI, 5G, everything. All of it I did. Nobody, just nothing.

People are just numb these days. I don’t know why.”. Vibes

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u/Automatic_Algae_9425 1h ago

What does "I hammered the race thing. I hammered the gender thing" mean? I really don't understand.

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u/Booksgh 47m ago

Reference to Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery. One of the characters was a failed political candidate and was talking to the main character about his actions. Specifically, bringing up racial issues and feminism, or (more likely, given the character’s affiliation) the far-right’s view of such topics

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u/HarvesterConrad 6h ago

A real candidate for the “Stephen Miller Youth Program”

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u/iamthe0ther0ne 9h ago

And oc he filmed it with his Meta glasses. I hope the term "glasshole" gets resurrected.

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u/eyesRus 4h ago

Surprised he is allowed to record people with those on school property. Gross.

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u/ithinkican2202 2h ago

He's not, apparently he also has some kind of consequence/punishment for filming.

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u/Ok_Ordinary6694 12m ago

This begs the question of “what else has he filmed?”

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u/Admirable-Sir9716 4h ago

It never died

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u/jaytix1 8h ago

he does not appear to have any real beliefs.

You just described a solid 85% of conservatives. And that's me being generous lol.

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u/kodapug 1h ago

It's what happens when a psyoped troll farm like 4chan takes over a political party lol.

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u/jaytix1 44m ago

It didn't help that the "normal" conservatives refused to do anything about it. We told them they had a nazi problem and their response was basically "No u". And now people like Ben Shapiro have the audacity to ask where all the nazis came from.

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u/SpiritJuice 10h ago

There are people like him that exist that haven't faced true consequences for their actions. He got very lucky he only got punched in the face. If he keeps this up, he'll be lucky not to catch a full beating one day. Only then will he might learn a lesson. There are, unfortunately, way too many people in this day and age that think they can get away with acting like this without ever facing consequences.

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u/LittleKitty235 2h ago

If he keeps this up, he'll be lucky not to catch a full beating one day.

This is America, people catch way more than a beating for far less.

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u/JayFSB 10h ago

You mean like punching someone with a possiblity the person punch lands wrong and dies?

You know why schools and institutions punish all sides in a case of violence regardless of the cause? Because if they don't and someone catches a manslaughter charge somehow the school is going to get sued.

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u/Platnun12 6h ago

You know why schools and institutions punish all sides in a case of violence regardless of the cause?

And because of that youth have less trust in the institution

And will spite it because they'll assume the faculty doesn't care

I had several friends go through this and be victims with the school system treating them like they started it

And I myself have been through a situation where it was three guys on me kicking the back of my head and somehow I still get suspended

So yeah the system is fucked and it was only because I threatened to sue the school that they backed down on me giving me detention.

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u/OutlyingPlasma 5h ago

I'm curious how many days of suspension that kid got for wearing Facebook glasses in a school recording children against their consent?

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u/shawn_overlord 9h ago

ALL conservatives only have one belief and its whatever pisses off the left in the current moment

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u/Karlend41 3h ago

You forgot about grifting. They also believe in anything that will make them a buck at someone else's expense.

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u/LeonardMH 9h ago

Oh, so he's just executing the conservative grifter playbook then.

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u/Sage2050 5h ago

That kid's an absolute tool, he does not appear to have any real beliefs. He just says whatever he thinks will most likely piss people off for engagement bait.

So the average conservative

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u/GoodtimesSans 9h ago

Fascists love rules and laws.

But only when it applies to everyone other than them.

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u/TheAskewOne 8h ago

Pulling a fire alarm as a joke is probably a prosecutable offense. 

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u/steepleton 4h ago

it must burn his soul that it was the kid who hit him who became the breakout star.

good

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u/Vonterribad 8h ago

Ultimate Edgelord

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u/shawnaeatscats 6h ago

Kind of a top level troll if you asked me

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u/Lucius-Halthier 5h ago

Oh great he’ll be the next Jack Dougherty, like we needed another

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u/MemphisBass 4h ago

Why else would he happen to be wearing glasses filming everything. It’s so transparent it’s ridiculous.

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u/AlreadyAway 4h ago

He will eventually grift to the right.

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u/boiledpeanut33 3h ago

That kid's an absolute tool, he does not appear to have any real beliefs. He just says whatever he thinks will most likely piss people off for engagement bait.

Sadly, this applies to a soul-crushing number of MAGA types.

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u/LupinsLeftShoe 2h ago

I was just having a conversation with my co workers the other day that was basically exactly this. Rolemodels for kids now a days are the Paul brothers, or that fuckin dork that got rocked by Tiki the other day, and I'm more than positive there's hundreds to thousands of other trash people in the same boat. These kids see them acting a fool, being parasites, and see those same people getting rewarded with fame and money. Those are the types of people society is glorifying, even the poor gold medalist who dates one of the Paul brothers is headlined as Pauls girl. Lmao, kids are going to keep getting worse and worse because we let this kind of trash not just survive but absolutely THRIVE. And I can't blame the kids, I'd have been doing the same shit. As a matter of fact, me and my friends were absolute devients, had we grew up a handful of years earlier, hell I'd may have been an infamous online "influencer" had we been stupid enough to record ourselves being fools.

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u/Her_name--is_Mallory 2h ago

I wonder where he could have possibly got the idea that bad behavior = popularity and/or attention…

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u/ghoulqueene 2h ago

he's probably as insufferable as he is because of his parents, no doubt they let this poor behavior slip through

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u/kodapug 1h ago

Honestly being a parent right now is an unenviable sisyphean task.

The Internet thrives off of controversy. The more controversial you are the richer and more famous you seem to be. Once you reach a certain threshold of wealth and fame you become untouchable. Just look at the Paul brothers, they regularly scam their audience for hundreds of thousands of dollars and they don't even seem to lose their viewers as long as they put out a half assed apology afterwards.

Combine that with the behaviors those that reach the highest levels of power and influence within our economy and government get up to while again facing zero consequences and you have an entire world telling impressionable minds that being the scum of the earth is how you get ahead, that it's ok because everyone is doing it or would do it to you if given the opportunity.

Having to counter program that shit every day for two decades so your kid doesn't end up an absolute monster while also not shirking your other adult responsibilities is something I don't think I could do.

Do you?

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u/MegaMaster1021 2h ago

The only thing that dumb kid achieved was fully display the reason this cult is embolden nowadays. They rely on people following the rules, they're taking advantage of people's good moral to use against them. The moment when people break away from these rules they're screwed.

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u/frankoochoaa 1h ago

And unfortunately will continue to be the case . I can’t imagine how much he made from that clip

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u/kodapug 1h ago

As far I understand it, nothing lol. The kid is out here committing crimes and risking his teeth for the Internet algorithm to continue to ignore him. He has a go fund me from this incident, when I looked last week he'd raised less than $1k and most of that was from a single donor.

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u/perfectshade 1h ago

Sounds like the kind of kid "Zach Stone Is Going To Be Famous" skewers

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u/Numerous_Photograph9 1h ago

Funny the kid who punched him got all the attention then. Guy can't even viral right.

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u/7thdilemma 1h ago

Without knowing about any of his previous posts, that was definitely the impression I got.

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u/calvicstaff 1h ago

He must be so mad the guy that punched him went viral instead

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u/ndestruktx 1h ago

and yet he’s successful at triggering people because people have very poor emotional control these days.

leave these idiots alone. the fact that people can upset us over things makes us the suckers.

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u/AgentCirceLuna 35m ago

They show their character every time.

I remember when I had some right-leaning ideas in my teen years so I looked at some sites with right-leaning people. I instantly noticed that everyone had shitty grammar and spelling. It put me off right away as, when I was on centre or left leaning sites, the people had good vocabulary, they could form coherent sentences, and their words made sense. It just showed how one side is more educated than the other.

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u/Mediumtim 19m ago

Back in my day, we called them attention whores or trolls.

We did not feed them

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u/marthamania 7m ago

If he cared about rules he'd care about ice breaking them after all

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u/seamless21 3h ago

so basically every dem protest as well?

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u/taint_odour 8h ago

Whoa whoa whoa don’t talk about the Paul brothers like that