The basic reason I think it's worthwhile to push back on the "America has always been fascist" talking point is that it creates the impression of a sort of acausal, inevitable present. But America's current fascism has been the culmination of work by a surprisingly small number of groups and people, with plans and goals and means, which often enough we can identify. And that means we can understand it and fight it from a position of understanding.

America's anticorruption laws had to be totally fucked to get here, and they were, on purpose. America's election laws had to be totally fucked to get here, and they were, on purpose. Etc etc. The basic premise of pluralistic democracy embodied by a post Civil Rights era US has been under attack basically since it was born, and if America was always just like this the fascists wouldn't have needed to do all that.

That hardly redeems the many failures and inequities of the US as the height of its democratic health, but we can still sensibly distinguish one thing from another

🤣🤣🤣"President Donald #Trump calls environmentalists 'terrorists.' Yet he is responsible for destroying more #oil and gas infrastructure, and possibly more fossil-fuel demand, than the most optimistic ecoterrorist could in their wildest dreams.

"By going to war with #Iran, the president, who has been openly hostile toward the clean-energy transition, may unintentionally turn out to be one of its greatest allies." https://www.thederrick.com/ap/commentary/mark-gongloff-the-ecoterrorism-is-coming-from-inside-the-white-house/article_8045a5c8-e72c-5c8f-945c-a11ddf9dad1a.html

#ScribesAndMakers 3Apr—Do you think there's a creative element to eating?

There's a creative element to everything, if you try hard enough.

I think many of us are so caught up in our routines that we often forget to eat with care (myself included). But like with every creative endeavor, the beauty comes with taking time to be present and enjoy it.

Eating itself might not be creative, per se, but that doesn't mean you can't appreciate the food like you would any other art form.

"Tues, with the subtlety of a wrecking ball & the morality of a foreclosure notice,🚨the Trump admin ann the most devastating attack on the US #ForestService in the agency’s 121-yr history. An execution‼️

They’re🚨ripping the HQs out of DC & shipping it to SLC -the beating heart of the anti-public-lands mvt in America. They’re shuttering every 1 of the 10 regional offs that have governed this agency since G Pinchot built the system over a century ago -career prof...

#USPol
https://www.hatchmag.com/articles/trump-administration-orders-dismantling-us-forest-service/7716263