This kid:

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    Spud, who was recording on his Ray-Ban Meta smartglasses, walked down the hallway by the main entrance while stating his support for ICE and law enforcement.

    Of course the bootlicker was wearing meta glasses.

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      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.

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        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.

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        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.

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    “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.

    What a legend.

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

    And what a weasel.

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      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.

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          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.

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            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.

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            On Tuesday – after the district’s four-day weekend – school officials spoke with Spud and gave him a one-day in-school suspension (ISS) for video recording in the school.

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      Absolutely prototypical Grima Wormtongue guy. Would bet money he wants to get into politics he is probably shaping his career path after Charles Kirk.

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    If I was duders parents that’d be two days of pizza and soda and a informative talk about how permanent records are bullshit.

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    The school also offered Spud a “safety plan” in response to online threats he has received, but Spud said he declined the plan.

    Of course he has, if a troll behaves they cannot troll people!

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      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”

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        I think its more simple of a safety plan for someone named spud.

        Something like, just shut the fuck up, that is it"

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    Spud, who has over 60,000 followers on Instagram, posted the 47-second video to his social media profiles on Instagram, X and TikTok later that evening.

    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.

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      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.

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        It’s a textbook example of chaotic good. He broke the rules to do the morally good thing.

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          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.

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        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.

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          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?

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            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.

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              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.

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                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.

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                  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.

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      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.

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        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”.

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      You know they did. Parents who raised a kid to punch nazis ain’t gonna punish them for punching nazis

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      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.

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    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.

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      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.

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        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.”

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          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.

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            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.

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            but it doesn’t mean it’s helping

            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.

            only deepens the wedge between the left and the right, making things worse

            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.

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            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.

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          Fighting back against school bullies is also “against the rules.”

          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.

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        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.

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        this can be counterproductive

        I see no downsides at all as long as you don’t explain why you’re doing it and don’t get caught.

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      Did reddit ban you for promoting violence? Pigboy steve only allows conservatives leeway in what they post

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        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. 😃👍

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        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 <current year>. 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.

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        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.

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            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”

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            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%