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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    431 year ago

    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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      191 year ago

      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.

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        I think it’s more that this nut job latched onto conservatism as his thing. If it wasn’t that it would have been something else.

        That being said, if conservatism wasn’t preventing adequate mental healthcare maybe this wouldn’t have happened.

            • What ideology produces a comparable number of spree killers to the far right?

              You don’t have to be “crazy” to kill someone (unless you care to argue that every soldier is a crazy person) and you don’t have to be far-right to kill someone.

              But American conservatives absolutely target and encourage murderers using exactly the same methods as Muslim extremists do. They told him exactly who he should kill and why he should kill them.

              Would he have killed him anyway, even if conservatives hadn’t pushed him to? Sure, maybe.

              But in this reality, he held up a severed head to the public and repeated conservative talking points.

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      Imagine what hes going to realize/think/feel when he gets medicated.

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          71 year ago

          I think he will hold onto this fractured reality because letting go of it will be too painful.

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        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.