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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    US doing a bang up job of curbing that far right terrorism problem. At least this one wasn’t part of the armed forces.

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      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.

      PS: A very good book on this topic: Fascism Today: What It Is and How to End It (link)

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        Going to read that article, but first an aside… Look at all those fucking rich white people in that photo.

        How could anyone ever think that the Republicans actually represent anyone besides rich white people? And mostly men at that.

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      I think this guy is just fucknut crazy, not a terrorist per se. Either way though, it’s not a great look.

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        It’s not a coincidence that a batshit crazy person is spewing right wing insanity and not singing kumbaya with the lefties. Just saying.

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        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.