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Justin Mohn, a 32-year-old Pennsylvania man, is in police custody after allegedly murdering and decapitating his father, claiming the latter was a "federal employee" and a "traitor." Before his arrest, Mohn posted a 14-minute video to YouTube in which he displayed his father's severed head, proclaiming: "This is the head of Mike Mohn, a federal

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 177 points 9 months ago (2 children)

But Antifa is the real danger, right?

[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 100 points 9 months ago (48 children)

my most favorite game when i find a conservative is to ask them point blank:

are you a fascist or are you an anti-fascist? you only get to pick one.

and they squiiiiiiirm

[–] lennybird@lemmy.world 25 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I like asking to play a game of who can list more politically-motivated homicides for each ideology and conservatives strangely never want to play.

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[–] FlowVoid@lemmy.world 23 points 9 months ago (12 children)

I would answer anti-fascist, but if someone asked me "Are you communist or anti-communist? Pick one" I would answer "neither"

[–] Grimy@lemmy.world 23 points 9 months ago (8 children)

You could pick either. There's no problem with having communist ideologies or being for capitalism.

There is a problem with fascism, it's not comparable to communism. A closer example would be asking someone if they are a racist or not.

We should be taking a hard line at certain ideologies and anyone that hesitate is suspect imo.

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[–] BigMacHole@lemm.ee 128 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Republicans are literally CUTTING OFF PEOPLE'S HEADS because of Ideological Disagreements but they are NOT Terrorists! ISIS are Terrorists because THEY cut off people's heads because of Ideological Disagreements!

[–] TheFriar@lemm.ee 69 points 9 months ago

Not even just people…his own dad. Who seems to have worked hard to give this douchebag what he has in life. And all it took was the scum fanning the flames of his hatred for ad money and airtime.

[–] superduperenigma@lemmy.world 26 points 9 months ago

Don't forget that "bOtH sIdEs ArE tHe SaMe!"

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[–] drmeanfeel@lemmy.world 109 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Another "lone wolf" that has nothing at all to do with the bog standard violent demagoguery of every single right wing talking head grifter I'm sure

[–] LordOfTheChia@lemmy.world 56 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (6 children)

What are you saying? This has nothing to do with the current republican party or their talking points!

Mohn also calls for the end of “all woke and gender ideology propaganda in schools and other public places

I'm sure it's a coincidence...

Mohn spouts several far-right talking points, including:

"America is rotting from the inside out as far-left woke mobs rampage our once prosperous cities, turning them into lawless zones."

" A fifth column army of illegal immigrants infiltrates our border"

Oh...

[–] PoliticalAgitator@lemmy.world 27 points 9 months ago

Decapitating a family member because there are men in your imagination wearing women's clothes.

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[–] moon@lemmy.cafe 101 points 9 months ago (11 children)

Why is it always republicans?

[–] stoly@lemmy.world 66 points 9 months ago (32 children)

Because conservatives have hyperactive fear and disgust centers compared to liberals. They really do feel these emotions in a way that non-conservatives do not. I have concluded that it is a mental disorder to be conservative--it's always projected insecurity.

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[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 26 points 9 months ago (5 children)

It's the empathy differentiator. People with empathy self select towards one end. People without select towards the other.

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[–] agitatedpotato@lemmy.world 87 points 9 months ago (4 children)

US doing a bang up job of curbing that far right terrorism problem. At least this one wasn't part of the armed forces.

[–] LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee 30 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (4 children)

This is a major argument for anti-fascist action. Liberal mainstream society has always been very bad at combating fascism because they desire calm and order and lawfulness which fascists can exploit. So besides "liberal anti-fa" using legal means like suing the KKK out of existence you also need autonomous anti-fa to prevent fascists from recruiting. That is why it's legitimate to prevent fascists from speaking using "impolite" means, because fascists speech using clever lies creates fascist thinking. The right to free speech has to exclude hate speech.

PS: A very good book on this topic: Fascism Today: What It Is and How to End It (link)

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[–] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.dbzer0.com 82 points 9 months ago (4 children)

It's ironic that if you proclaim to be communist or anarchist, they'll basically blacklist you, yet one of our political parties is also the largest organized hate group in the nation, and we just accept that as normal.

[–] Cosmonauticus@lemmy.world 82 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (4 children)

This dude LITERALLY pulled an ISIS beheading his father while basically giving the same talking points AS FUCKING ISIS.

Swatting, bomb threats, planting bombs, death threats, murder, mass shootings, election tampering, sedition, attacking government institutions. Let's call a spade a spade. They're a terrorist organization

[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 67 points 9 months ago (7 children)

This is not an edited photo. CPAC literally created and wore that banner of their own volition.

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[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 69 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

From another source, decapitation aside, this guy does sound severely mentally ill.

https://www.phillyburbs.com/story/news/crime/2024/01/30/middletown-police-bucks-county-justin-mohn-michael-mohn-death-levittown-upper-orchard/72416523007/

"The video, reviewed by this news organization, includes a manifesto-style rant in which Mohn calls on his followers to take action against federal employees. It is titled “Call to Arms for American Patriots.”

After holding up what appears to be his father’s severed head, he says he now controls and commands “America’s police and military,” and calls for the execution of federal employees, and puts bounties on the FBI director, the Attorney General and the Chief Supreme Court Justice.

He rails against the LGBTQ community, the Black Lives Matters and “terrorist organizations such as anti-fa.” He calls for the seizure of federal buildings and says federal employees should be “publicly executed for betraying their country.”

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[–] TechAnon@lemm.ee 64 points 9 months ago (8 children)

I think it's time the term "Y'all Queda" comes back.

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[–] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 61 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Republicans are a threat to humanity.

[–] Hasherm0n@lemmy.world 52 points 9 months ago (5 children)

While I don't disagree, this person was also quite clearly mentally ill.

Now who is it that keeps cutting support for... Oh right...

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[–] CodeName@infosec.pub 58 points 9 months ago

This is what right wing talking points do to a motherfucker. These people are not well to begin with, and when they mainline toxic propoganda 24/7 they go absolutely insane.

[–] Hegar@kbin.social 57 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Another person driven to hate and violence by the republican party when all he needed was solutions from the left.

He sued the feds 4 times, including one time when:

Mohn "alleged that the obligation to make payments on his student loan led to mental anguish, emotional distress, financial strain, lack of savings, and debt, all of which allegedly impacted his quality of life."
-https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/justin-mohn-was-angry-he-couldn-t-get-job-as-overeducated-white-man/ar-BB1hyebP

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[–] lennybird@lemmy.world 47 points 9 months ago (2 children)

How much would fox news cover this if this was an Antifa / BLM person?

Oops, that doesn't happen because Antifa / BLM aren't remotely a concern to the FBI, unlike right-wing extremists responsible for the vast majority of political violence and murder.

[–] agent_flounder@lemmy.world 30 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Political violence has been perpetrated by the right wing extremists far, far more often than the left, yes. Totally agree with your point.

But I have to speak up: The FBI has tracked and harassed leftists and black activists in the past and I don't want anyone to think otherwise.

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[–] GilgameshCatBeard@lemmy.ca 43 points 9 months ago (5 children)

Again…. NOT a cross-dresser.

[–] PoliticalAgitator@lemmy.world 25 points 9 months ago

I'm sure the far-right is desperately searching for something "leftist" to pin on him while simultaneously applauding him in their seedy little Nazi chat rooms.

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[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 38 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Why is it the people with the crazy issues tend to gravitate to right wing conspiaracy?

You know what you get when you have a crazy left-winger? Someone with 50 cats and a lot of save the trees and Co3x1st bumper stickers.

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[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 38 points 9 months ago (2 children)

"Federal employee"

From the article he singles out the Post Office.

Was his dad a Postal worker?

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 26 points 9 months ago (9 children)

Huh. Back in the day it was the postal workers who did the decapitating. That's why we call it "going postal."

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[–] Jaysyn@kbin.social 37 points 9 months ago

Donald Trump & his #fascist #GOP caused this.

[–] TheBlue22@lemmy.blahaj.zone 35 points 9 months ago (21 children)
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[–] cordlesslamp@lemmy.today 35 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I'm not American, but your Republicans need to chill the fuck out.

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[–] BigMacHole@lemm.ee 33 points 9 months ago (1 children)

OBVIOUSLY a Deep State FBI agent beheaded his father and went on a rant to make REPUBLICANS look bad!

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[–] key@lemmy.keychat.org 31 points 9 months ago (13 children)

That's disturbing. That quoted bit of dialogue definitely has some grandiose language. Seems like yet another case where extremist right wing media fed into psychosis leading to a tragic outcome.

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[–] gothic_lemons@lemmy.world 28 points 9 months ago (5 children)

"Mohn was arrested near a National Guard training center in Fort Indiantown Gap at around 10:00 PM, approximately an hour before a 911 call was made about 100 miles away by a woman who told operators that she found her husband’s head in their home. Police had been called to the residence earlier, around 7:00 PM when they found Mohn’s headless body after being alerted to the existence of the video."

Wait so the police show up at 7 PM and find the body. Then leave and come back when the wife found the head. Jesus that is fucked.

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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 27 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Trump should give him a medal. This is how a perfect Trump fanboy looks like.

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[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 25 points 9 months ago (5 children)

What the actual fuck. These people are insane and a danger to society. The con movement is truly a cult.

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[–] Suavevillain@lemmy.world 24 points 9 months ago

Average Right-Wing behavior at this point.

[–] DarkGamer@kbin.social 24 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Mental illness and right wing conspiratorial fear-mongering, like peas and carrots.

Mohn is the author of books listed on Amazon.com, including one called “America’s Coming Bloody Revolution,” and another titled “Poems I Wrote While Stoned.” He called for the impeachment of FBI director Christopher Wray last February on his Facebook page. In 2020, he wrote on Facebook, “#Yeezy for Preezy twenty-twenty-feezy! 2024 may be the first year I bother to vote.”
When touting the “America’s Coming Bloody Revolution” book on his Facebook page, Mohn wrote, “I believe the time has come for action.” He also wrote a book called “The Revolution Leader’s Survival Guide,” according to his Facebook page.
One of his book captions says that Justin Mohn’s “four year stay in Colorado caused multiple lawsuits and changed the possible outcomes of the 2020 U.S. Presidential election by exposing 3 Presidential candidates as corrupt which forced them to drop out of the race.” A 2017 book description says he wrote then-President Trump a letter, according to Levittown Now.
In 2023, he filed a lawsuit against the federal government that reads, in part, “Justin Mohn, a 2014 graduate of Pennsylvania State University, returns for the fourth time pro se to sue the United States for allowing him to borrow money to attend college without advising him he may not find satisfactory work as an overeducated white man almost ten years later.” ...
He said that “the traitorous Biden regime” wants to send “America’s military overseas to fight for Ukraine and die in a Russian winter.” He also claimed without evidence that electors from both the Democratic and Republican parties wanted him to be president in 2020. He also claimed that there is belief that he is “the Messiah.”
https://heavy.com/news/justin-mohn-youtube-video-father/

There are real dangers to spreading conspiratorial disinformation, it's a call to violence for many mentally ill people.

[–] lennybird@lemmy.world 23 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I just want to take this opportunity to remind people how important it is to vote.

And also: Tell your Republican friends and Republican echo-chambers that if the whole thing is rigged as they say, then why should they even bother voting? Tell them to consider protesting! :)

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