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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      7 months ago

      Well if it helps ease your mind, he is clearly mentally unwell, not any sort of organization planning strategic moves. Similar murders have happened for a while.

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        7 months ago

        Well I’d say the constant extremist propaganda pushed by FOX, OAN and the likes at the very least carelessly accept that their message will incite such mentally receptive people to commit violence. So while not “planned” it’s certainly viewed as acceptable “collateral damage”.

        And for some of the more extreme ones of them they definitely DO want such acts of violence to occur and they knowingly using stochastic terrorism to ferment it.

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      7 months ago

      Starting? This is by no means the first nutjob who kills for MAGA/Trump. They’ve had a whole insurrection with several deaths caused.

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      A lot can be said for mentally ill and the right wing and extremism, but again, this guy was mentally ill which caused him to do something horrible. This is not really something new. He should not have been fed a steady stream of lies, but he should also have received mental health care.