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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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[–] VelociCatTurd@lemmy.world 29 points 9 months ago (1 children)
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[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 28 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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[–] lennybird@lemmy.world 28 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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[–] DarkGamer@kbin.social 26 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.

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

Jesus Christ, fucking minding your own business when your own son murders you and decapitates you because he was radicalized by the extremist rhetoric used constantly by the Right.

[–] politicalincorruption@lemmy.world 23 points 9 months ago

It’s past time for a cult intervention.

[–] shadowspirit@lemmy.world 23 points 9 months ago

Sounds like schizophrenia to me. Fear-mongering by politicians only exacerbates existing mental health issues.

Sad day.

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 21 points 9 months ago (4 children)

...Mohn spouts...

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.

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[–] agentsquirrel@sh.itjust.works 16 points 9 months ago

The only question now is if Trump will pardon this loyal foot soldier. ( /s )

[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 15 points 9 months ago
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