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, proclaim...
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
I saw a post recently - pretty sure it was in nottheonion - of a screencap of a Fox News segment, where they were interviewing someone that the caption described as an “anti-anti-fascist”.
Though to be fair, Fox News viewers aren’t likely to put two and two together. Or, for that matter, realize that an anti-anti-fascist is just a fascist.
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!
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.
Yikes on bikes. I'm guessing this is yet another person that probably should've been in a mental institution instead of alone, ignored, and getting suckered into the alt right pipeline. Surely the level of violence he exhibited is pathological.
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.
If hexbear was here, they'd tell you liberals are just as bad lol. I agree that to an extent, but in reality I do seem them to be much better. Crazies just so happen to line up with conservative ideals, which essentially just boils down to just bigotry at the end of the day.
You're generally correct as studies corroborated the feeling of disgust to be stronger on those on the right. But I wouldn't necessarily put that to every single conservatives. I met many conservatives who are still sane. The term RINO is a thing after all, and the only conservative party I agree with is the German CdU.
This is an almost perfect description of what's going on. I was unlucky enough to be raised in one of their conservative homeschool cults... 8 kids. 2 girls, were uneasy about the doctrine for a bit but were taught by parents to be submissive so they just accepted it. 4 other boys, no empathy or feelings whatsoever, became three hateful people and one neo-nazis. The third girl, fought against it with moderate ideas, advocating for women's rights, etc. Was verbally abused and taunted by them and her parents to the point of extreme depression, self harm, possibly suicidal thoughts idk. Hasn't left Christianity, but graduated early to get away from them. Then me, enby (assigned male). Not even open about it, but different from the other guys bc I actually have empathy and feelings. Depression, self-harm, suicidal thoughts (the usual), survived bc of outside friends I had in secret, became a pagan liberal but still really mentally screwed up...
I do wonder if the enlargement of the parts of the brain dealing with fear conditioning, self-deception and emotional learning but lack of emotional regulation are because most if not all extreme conservatives (at least in my campus "dataset" of about 50) have survived extreme cases of abuse and either a) became numb to it and started convincing themselves to do it to others because it's "right" or b) became extremely depressed, suicidal, learned heightened empathy and critical thinking by surviving that and ended up in the "liberal" dataset.
Because their extremist speech is normalized. Go on any xitter thread with a political tone and it's basically red flag after red flag of tweets that will be on the "what we know about the shooter" graphics in the future.
The funny thing about Dunning & Kruger, their study was based on faulty science. They believed their own bullshit and loudly proclaimed their findings that "felt right". And it became a meme, when a bunch of people believed their headline without checking their study first, including me. There is no significant correlation.
So, stupid people overestimating their abilities? Let's start with examining Dunning & Kruger.
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.
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
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.
Liberal mainstream society has always been very bad at combating fascism because they desire calm and order and lawfulness which fascists can exploit.
Somehow the most calm and vegetarian liberal mainstream societies are also the least fascist, and fascism doesn't grow there. So maybe it just works and your fixes are not required.
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.
Why would you attack their visibility if the problem is their existence and visibility is a feedback allowing to measure it?
because fascists speech using clever lies creates fascist thinking.
Only if fascists use clever lies, how does one tell between "liberals" and fascists?
And also that fascist thinking is exactly ...
The right to free speech has to exclude hate speech.
... this. Exclusion of rights given as a dogma.
You don't need that, you can just allow people to not communicate with carriers of views they consider inhumane, but you still choose the most fascist way of countering fascism.
Also:
You allow you child to do everything, they might get wounded in one way or another, they might become somebody whom you wouldn't want them to be, they might make mistakes, but they might also be happy.
You keep them locked (figuratively), and they won't become anyone at all.
You make your own choices in between and they become closer to the latter, but conscious of what they could have been.
Terrorism is "fucknut crazy". Killing others in the name of a belief system that controls and represses others, for political or theological reasons, is fucking nuts. This isn't the control of "don't shit on LGBTQ people" that conservatives whine about and claim is liberal tyranny, this is the control that physically harms people because they don't conform to their fucked-up belief system. Which is what this guy did.
"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.”
This is how stochastic terrorism works. Fox news pumps out a constant stream of crazy shit that they can plausibly say are opinions or entertainment, then vulnerable people who are exposed to it intertwine it with their own delusions and carry out acts of violence. Fox and others keep upping their rhetoric to keep their people hooked, their viewers keep escalating their rhetoric, and their viewers become more and more radicalized. It starts with mentally ill people who've been poisoned by this taking action, and eventually the terrorism gets normalized.
IMHO, this will continue to happen more regularly until there are red hat mobs going door to door executing everyone with a pride flag or black lives matter sign in their window. The cops will be there to make sure no one resists the mob, just like they did with white riots in the past.
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.
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.
I doubt they'll stop with people, friend. They will keep trying to eat the whole world, until there is nothing left but themselves to eat, or they are stopped by us.
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.
Yeah definitely a mix of mental health and too much propaganda. In the quoted portions he is clearly delusional. He tells all postal workers that if they don't quit and join their countrymen he can't promise protection for them. He may have done something like this anyway but clearly the anti Biden message has resonated with him.
You don't need to be psychotic to murder someone. Soldiers can be trained to kill. There could be nothing in his head to medicate away, just a bunch of conservative dogshit where his mind should have been.
It's not about republicans, it's about mental health.
Also when mental health problems' reception in the society marginalizes you, you tend to seek for cults\sects and other such kinds of feeling of belonging to something without it being personal (because personal contacts are where your trauma is).
I didn't read the article, but suspect he also lived with his father at that age.
It’s not about republicans, it’s about mental health.
Republicans are actively making it as hard as possible to receive help for or pro actively address mental health issues. They also actively shame people for such problems and want them to just shut up about it. So no, Republicans definitely bear quite a lot of guilt for such "tragedies"!
Not sure if you’re rearranging fact for effect, but it was a workplace shooting at the Edmond, OK post office by another postal worker that coined the phrase “going postal”. Dude brought a few handguns and killed 15 and wounded I don’t know how many more.
I keep wondering this, too. I am sure it doesn't help that those on the far right seem to demonize mental health help and showing weekness/needing any help. Besides the general crazy conspiracies and tendency to blame the government/others for what they see as wrong in society
"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.
Yea what the actual fuck is going on with that police force?
If I were in that district I'd be calling my representative to put pressure on their mayor cuz they just traumatized an innocent women for no reason. Coroner could've been there and gone in 4 hours, hooooly shiiiit
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! :)
If you don't vote, then it's people like this psycho who will get representation instead of you. If that doesn't freak people out I don't know what will.
This guy is quite literally mentally ill. He is not representative of the entire conservative movement. His classmates from a decade ago attest he had been going off the deep end back then.
He isn't representative of conservatives as a whole, but the rhetoric pushed by many prominent Republicans is exactly the sort of propaganda to inspire these actions.
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.
The federal government of America has declared war on America’s citizens and the American states. 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, and if the traitorous Biden regime is successful in sending America’s military overseas to fight for Ukraine and die in a Russian winter just like every other military who has ever fought Russia in the winter, then America will be less protected when the fifth column of illegal immigrants strikes Americans on our own soil. …
If you are a federal employee and are listening to this message, now is your last chance to resign from the side of the traitors and join your countrymen in taking back your country. … I urge the U.S. Postal Service to suspend their services at this time, split from the federal government, and join your countrymen, or else I cannot offer federal postal workers any protection. If the media begins to spread lies about this revolution and its patriots. Then I authorize the targeting of news stations and their owners and employees as well. The hunting, capturing, and killing of America’s federal employees will not stop until Americans’ demands are met.
In my case the mod in News deleted a post because they didn't like the source. Then when I use a new source, he deleted the new post because it's a duplicate of the old post he deleted. I'm sure they have some circular logic to defend their action.
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.
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.
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.
Biden regime is successful in sending America’s military overseas to fight for Ukraine and die in a Russian winter just like every other military who has ever fought Russia in the winter, then America will be less protected when the fifth column of illegal immigrants strikes Americans on our own soil. …
Columns? Do illegal immigrants come in Phalanx formations?
Exactly, but when your news intake is fox news, oan and other "news" providers (with VERY large air quotes), facts become very... Shall we say, liquid ..
I truly wonder what he thinks will happen now, my thought is he thinks he'll go down as a martyr and I wonder what will happen when and if he sees that nothings really happening
hey i think it's worth pointing out that levittown is basically founded on being whites-only, so it's hard for me to believe this guy's dad is a sympathetic victim
The dude hacked his dad's head off. The son is obviously an unhinged, violent, right wing lunatic. The character of the victim is irrelevant. What in the world are you on about, again??
Also, for anyone that doesn't know, numerous other cities have had wildly discriminatory housing policies in the past against blacks. That is one major reason why generational wealth is typically lower in black families than white ones since home ownership is a major component of generational wealth building.
>numerous other cities have had wildly discriminatory housing policies in the past against blacks
levittown was a secluded suburb. it's not at all like new york and chicago. it wasn't that people there were red-lined: it's that black people weren't welcome on any street.