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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    10 months ago

    I was answering an opinion about republicans being more likely to cut off heads and spew stuff about immigrants destroying Murrica (because they all are secretly tribesmen with pipe and feathers hidden somewhere safe).

    What you say is orthogonal to that.

    Yeah, surely they do.

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      What you say is orthogonal to that.

      How so? The primary audience for violent propaganda are republicans. The worst you can find on the democrat/left side are people saying you should beat up Nazis. And even that is hardly done by “official” news channels.

      So yeah, currently fanatic republicans are a lot more likely to commit murder than anyone on the other side. Their fetishisation of guns to “defend them self” against the government alone makes sure of that.

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        How so? The primary audience for violent propaganda are republicans. The worst you can find on the democrat/left side are people saying you should beat up Nazis. And even that is hardly done by “official” news channels.

        I think we should measure this both in periods when relative dominance is held by Democrats and when it is held by Republicans.

        They feel themselves marginalized and act more aggressively.

        Their fetishisation of guns to “defend them self” against the government

        I actually like that little thing, when it’s presented like in Heinlein’s books.

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          I think we should measure this both in periods when relative dominance is held by Democrats and when it is held by Republicans.

          OK, the same was still true under Trump. Both sides aren’t the same.