Rakesh Ahuja @DwnlodingMyMind · Apr 24, 2025
Jimmy Carter observed that in its 242 [now 249] years history, the United
States has enjoyed only 16 years of peace, making it "the most war-like
nation in the history of the world."
This is a telling truth about America in the context of the following
compilation by
@stats_feed
about US military and clandestine operations in
foreign countries since WWII:
https://x.com/stats_feed/status/1915137349815615686
Rakesh Ahuja @DwnlodingMyMind · Apr 23, 2025
If the following is any indication, GOP legislators are now reduced to
improving US relations with the likes of El Salvador. Given
#DeveloperTrump's policies, they are not expressing such sentiments vis a
vis China, EU, etc. Of course, this decline of Imperial America fits in,
historically, with the fate of all Empires.
https://x.com/RepLuna/status/1914703088855753122
Rakesh Ahuja @DwnlodingMyMind · Apr 14, 2025
As the United States of America unravels under the reign of the Elected
Monarch, #DeveloperTrump:
In How Democracies Die (2018), Harvard academics Steven Levitsky and
Daniel Ziblatt developed four behavioural warning signs to identify an
autocrat/dictator in the making.
First, when a politician rejects the democratic rules of the game. Second,
when he ""denies the legitimacy of opponents". Third, when he "tolerates or
encourages violence". And fourth, when he "indicates a willingness to
curtail the civil liberties of opponents, including the media".
Sigh!
Rakesh Ahuja @DwnlodingMyMind · Mar 19, 2025
I confess that Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged did attract
me in my teen-hood. Having abandoned her long ago, it is nevertheless
startling to hear her first-hand praising "individualism, capitalism". Today,
these two ideological watchwords are being rehearsed unrestrained in
America, setting the stage for social and political upheavals in flawed
(populist) democracies.
https://x.com/Sadie_NC/status/1901811494230049059/video/1