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Hindustan Times
06-07-2025
- Politics
- Hindustan Times
Musk likens America Party to ‘Epaminondas' in Sparta scenario; reveals when his party will contest
Elon Musk, soon after launching his America Party on Saturday, announced that his party will contest in the 2026 mid-terms. The Tesla CEO further revealed the ideology behind his party's formation using the Epaminondas vs Spartans scenario. This comes amid the billionaire's feud with President Donald Trump over the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Elon Musk on Saturday announced that he has formed the America Party(AFP) 'The way we're going to crack the uniparty system is by using a variant of how Epaminondas shattered the myth of Spartan invincibility at Leuctra: Extremely concentrated force at a precise location on the battlefield,' Musk noted on X, platform formerly known as Twitter. An X user asked Musk when he plans to contest elections. 'Next year,' the tech billionaire responded. Read More: America Party launched: Is Musk running for president in 2028? Who's funding? Any other leaders? 'The future strategy should certainly evolve, but it is worth noting that Thebes did actually dominate Greece for a decade following Leuctra,' Elon Musk further stated. Epaminondas defeated Sparta by using an unorthodox oblique order tactic at Leuctra, concentrating forces to break the stronger Spartan right wing. In this case, Musk framed the Republican-Democrat uni-party as Sparta, a dominant but flawed system, and his party as Thebes, a smaller force aiming to disrupt the political establishment. The 54-year-old's plan likely avoids a broad national challenge, focusing on 6–8 House seats and 4 Senate seats in competitive 2026 midterms, particularly in swing districts, to influence Congress. When will Musk's America Party contest elections? Musk confirmed the American Party will begin contesting elections in the 2026 midterm cycle, targeting November 2026 for House and Senate races. 'We'll start small, contesting key seats in 2026 to flip the balance, not 2028,' he said. Earlier in the day, Musk announced that the America Party is formed. "By a factor of 2 to 1, you want a new political party and you shall have it!" he said in a post on X. "Today, the America Party is formed to give you back your freedom." The announcement from Musk comes after President Donald Trump signed a tax-cut and spending bill into law on Friday, which the billionaire chief executive officer of Tesla fiercely opposed. Trump earlier this week threatened to cut off the billions of dollars in subsidies that Musk's companies receive from the federal government. Musk said previously that he would start a new political party and spend money to unseat lawmakers who supported the bill. (With inputs from Reuters)
Yahoo
29-06-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Manchester Museum poses interesting question to visitors about mummy display
The Manchester Museum is asking visitors whether they think it should take an Egyptian mummy away from display after being in the museum for 200 years. A small plaque has been placed next to the body of Asru, a woman who lived in Thebes some 2,700 years ago. For 200 of those years Asru has been at the Manchester Museum since her she was unwrapped there in 1825. READ MORE: Friends left stunned at Manchester Airport after landing £24,000 in terminal READ MORE: Man killed after being hit by car in M60 horror with motorway closed for 12 hours Join the Manchester Evening News WhatsApp group HERE Now visitors are met with a plaque asking them: 'Should we continue to display the body of Asru?' It also goes into some of her history, explaining: 'Asru's mummified body was unwrapped at the Manchester Natural History Society in April 1825. "She has regularly been on display for the two centuries since. In that time, we have also changed as a museum and are thinking more about how we care for people.' The question is a part of a wider shift in museums across Britain as they more closely interrogate the link between their collections and imperialism, including the Transatlantic Slave Trade, the Guardian reports. Much of the money which built both the physical museum buildings and their collections had its origins in the extractive policies of the British Empire and the mass trafficking of human beings from Africa to North and South America and the Caribbean. Museums and collections dating from after the abolition of slavery are also a part of this. Much of the huge amount of capital given to slave owners as "compensation" would go on to become a massive cash injection for the industrial revolution, including in Manchester, as the former slavers reinvested their money. Asru's body was acquired by Robert and William Garnett, the sons of someone who made money trafficking enslaved people from Africa and who then followed him into the city's booming cotton industry. Study has revealed that Asru was around 60 years old when she died, and the daughter of a "Pa-Kush", meaning a black Sudanese man, who worked as a scribe. The Museum has also launched a Decolonise! Trail, challenging eurocentric approaches to collections. Chloe Cousins, Manchester Museum's social justice manager, who created the trail, said: 'The trail is new but the concept of decolonising isn't new to Manchester Museum at all. Telling more accurate and nuanced accounts of the history of the collections is one of the ways we can care for the people and communities whose belongings, stories and histories are held here.' The Manchester Museum is not the only institution in Manchester to be grappling with the often difficult history of its collections. A piece by artist Kani Kamil at Manchester Art Gallery as part of the exhibition Rethinking the Grand Tour saw her put a pre-1910 Iraqi Kurdish dress on display - but still in the box in which it is stored. This was accompanied by a message written on the wall in Kurdish reflecting on the memory and humanity contained within that box. It is like so many other boxes from all around the world kept hidden away in museum archives here in the UK, hundreds or even thousands of miles from their homes and the people that created them.
