Bonyfish

America is not ready to admit it, but we have been invaded. Our communities are under attack, our youth are being corrupted, our institutions are being usurped, and our culture is being ransacked. Our constitution was designed to enable good men to promote good policy, while protecting the system from any one branch gaining too much power out of fear of bad actors. Today, every branch is filled with bad actors who push to remove our rights as citizens. In November 2024, we made some progress in reclaiming our own government, but we have been caught flat-footed in a moment of weakness. From 2008 to 2024, vicious snakes worked behind the scenes, pushing a message of they called progressivism, setting our culture back a century and opening the door to colonizers in our own land. They flooded our courts with puppet justices, expanded their own power lopsidedly, and poisoned our children. They changed definitions of our words, using radical rhetoric to mentally disenfranchise entire cities. Their methodology is inherently self-destructive, and the locations they most deeply infiltrated are now self-destructing. We have reclaimed control, but our government, even with all emergency powers, is not designed to respond at such a great pace to quell the evil that has entered our country. Our forefathers foresaw this issue with our founding documents and implemented a safeguard—the most important sentence written in our laws: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” This is a call to arms. Every citizen should be arming themselves to defend their right to life, liberty, family, property, speech, religion, and movement. Every group of citizens should be organizing to defend their community. Every church should be organizing to secure their places of worship and protect their parishioners. Gone are the days of sending our children to fight wars on foreign soil. We now need to protect our children from the war on our home turf, and we aren’t the only ones. Every western country has been invaded, and unfortunately their citizens gave up every weapon they had to defend themselves. We are fortunate for the brilliant minds of our predecessors, and we need to be making better use of the chance they have given us. This is no longer political; this is a holy war, not of us but upon us. Educate yourselves, arm yourselves, and be ready. Never seek violence, but always be prepared for it, or we will all be destroyed.

Photography wasn't considered art for a long time. Renowned as "the father of art criticism", Charles Baudelaire wrote in The Salon of 1859: "As the photographic industry was the refuge of every would-be painter, every painter too ill-endowed or too lazy to complete his studies, this universal infatuation bore not only the mark of blindness, an IMBECILITY, but had also the air of a VENGEANCE." There used to be a large market for portrait art, as it was the best way to get images of the self and family. Those portrait artists were upset by the invention of the daguerrotype (early photography). The definition of 'art' has also shifted so drastically since its roots (Latin, "ars") that its impossible to even talk about it without first confirming definitions. Even photographers themselves were conflicted (just as AI creators are now). John Moran, an early photographer said in 1865: "Of course Photography can never claim the homage of the higher forms of art; for in the actual production of the work, the artist ceases and laws of nature take his place." He tried to argue that the function of an artist is partaking "the creative process to know what is most beautiful", but also defended photography in the same vein: "The exercise of the artistic faculties are undoubtedly necessary in the production of pictures from nature, for any given scene offers so many different points of view; but if there is not the perceiving mind to note and feel the relative degrees of importance in the various aspects which nature presents, nothing worthy of the name of pictures can be produced." Now as to my own commentary on the matter: I think the issue lies in the definition and I don't believe 'art' itself is a binary in every step. Although the pieces of a collage themselves are not an artistic expression of the creator of a final collage... most people would consider a collage to be art due to the artistic "direction" that is placed upon it. An accidental capture of an ant in a picture of a leaf, later discovered through development, is not an art. But if the photographer later decides to put that picture into a specific frame to focus specifically on the element of that ant... then the whole thing becomes art regardless of if the individual elements are artistic in nature or not. The "art" lies in the "intention and expression" and isn't a binary. An art piece can be comprised of both artistic and non-artistic things. To make an example in a common application—Most modern people would consider an illustration made in Photoshop to be art, but wouldn't consider the brushes (and things like fonts) themselves to be art. The artist usually doesn't make them. In conclusion: Art resides not in individual elements but intent and expression. We know this intuitively as we would consider a movie director to be an artist due to the vision of the scene rather than the individual elements. This is an obvious fact that people blind themselves to for whatever their ideology is (or perhaps the answer is much more simple and they're just retarded). (Photo by John Moran)

We need a law yesterday banning foreign nationals from office. This is so fucked.

@TeamYouTube you've removed and given a strike on one of my recent videos due to "Harassment and Cyberbullying Policy", which according to you is and I quote: "Content that targets someone with prolonged insults or slurs based on their intrinsic attributes. This includes, but is not limited to, content that's uploaded with the intent to shame, deceive or insult a minor." The minor in question, and the video in question: Is where @SimoneHCollins plays with his kids and in one instance calls them "little bastards" as an affectionate nick name. Policing how parents express love to their children (what was obviously happening in the scene) feels deeply dystopian. Many of us have memories of being called things like "little monsters" with affection... and trying to re-fame that as abuse is ghoulish. I hope this was just some kind of mistake, or an action by an over zealous moderator. If this is indeed against the rules, please tell us plainly that you think this kind of endearing moment is too far for your policies. (Clip attached with permission)

“Breaking barriers with every step.” Someone call me when she takes one.

In 1990, my entire family did a little Q&A. One of the questions was about unfulfilled dreams My dad’s answer: “I hope to someday have national recognition of my artistic ability.” He’s closing in on 80 and I want to help make that happen His work is incredible. The kind of talent that deserves to be seen far beyond just family and friends. So I’m asking for a small favor: take a look at his art, and if it resonates with you, share it Help me give him the recognition he’s deserved for decades

When our constitution was written the framers recognized that it was essential to ensure the voting members of our Union be sufficiently invested in its success and future in the long term, lest it fall to the long established chaos of democracy-by-universal-suffrage. They ensured this by requiring citizenship and land ownership to vote. Removing this requirement was the greatest mistake we ever made as a country.

I think the rampant normalization of violent rhetoric is not being taken seriously enough.

They don't kill you because you're a Nazi. They call you a Nazi so they can kill you.

please pray for chibi

In case you were wondering what felony aggravated battery and attempted murder looks like… no reasonable argument for self defense or provocation makes this acceptable.

What makes them act like this?

@Brick_Suit @SteveHiltonx Clarification: its not just the taxes. Its the taxes and their super special bullshit gas/additive blend that changes every six months and is different than the rest of the country.

Which side of the Colorado river do you buy gas at? $7.20 in California $4.03 in Arizona Hey California, it's the TAXES! @SteveHiltonx has a plan for that

Its amazing how you can immediately spot the one young black man who had a father in his life.

The New York Times just accidentally gave us a perfect example of why we need to end birthright citizenship👇

The idea that America is the world's daycare needs to die. It is tragic that so many countries around the world are hot garbage. Contrary to popular belief, that doesn't make it America's responsibility to take care of the third world.

This blockade by the US is illegal...we demand compensation from everyone allied with the US, but not the US itself. We also demand that the US enforce this demand, because they are the world police.

@DefiantLs Did she eat the poor child?

Woke Canadian teacher with "non binary child" mocked for absurd choice of pronouns "j wallace skeleton"

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