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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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Don't worry they'll call him a leftist agitator and keep on without blinking an eye. 🙄

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Watch out for those far left mobs they'll sever your father's hea... Oh shit. Oh fuck.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I've been watching in horror pretty much all of my short 30 years of life from America. And I wish the problem was just here.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Anyone have a mirror?

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago

Michael Reinoehl Willem Van Spronsen

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Don't forget highly embarrassing social media interactions

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also to my knowledge, we have only stationed troops in poland??

I'm pretty sure that's just factually untrue.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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 ..

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

im not even sure we could refer to those as facts at that point either "information tidbits" maybe.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'm not saying that the person who said this isn't nuts but, as a point of interest , they did use "fifth column" appropriately.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_column

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yes except I would argue that while he believes immigrant are the fifth column, the actual fifth column is this guy.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

No, they hit us with Excel spreadsheets!

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