Tinidril

What's Jesus have to do with Christianity? Christianity has always been Paul's religion, not Jesus'.

Democrats would shed a tear for Palestinian children as they handed IDF soldiers a reload.

Uh, no?

It wasn't all that close. Maybe it made a difference in Wisconsin, but I seriously doubt it would have swung any others.

Israeli.

Illinois isn't so bad, except that it's one of the fifty.

I have no doubt that some of it was real, but it wasn't significant enough to swing an election.

No shit. People spent months trying to "convince" them by shaming and berating them. It's just human nature to harden ones stance when met with that sort of onslaught. Especially when, lets face it, they had a point with Gaza. I don't agree with them, but the people who still won't shut up about it aren't helping.

Anyways, those (non)voters didn't swing the election. It was just the usual American voter apathy because of the usual pathetic Democratic candidate. Only Biden and Harris had it in their power to do something that would have made a difference.

I don’t even see a justification for the need to put these departments more closely under the control of the executive

False corruption charges are frequently used by insurgencies and foreign influence operations to undermine legitimate governance. I'm not saying it is or isn't a legitimate concern in this case but, if it were, we definitely wouldn't know the exact reasons. Given Russia's history of using foreign influence as a weapon of war and, in particular, their history of doing so in Ukraine, I can definitely understand the concern.

Of course real corruption can't go unanswered because of the possibility of trumped up charges. It's a tricky bit of business to get right.

Except that he isn't the Democratic candidate,candidate the Democratic candidate isn't like that at all.

It's not the Democratic party, it's the Democratic establishment. There have always been some good Democrats, especially at the state and local level.

This is an outdated mindset. Design and manufacturing work best together in a tight feedback loop, and China has become perfectly capable of doing their own design work. America has positioned itself to become nothing but a nation of consumers and venture capitalists.

Your concept of Hedonism is uncritical and severely narrow. It is a broad term that encompasses lots of philosophies. For instance social hedonism is about minimizing pain and maximizing pleasure at a societal level. Chasing immediate pleasure for oneself is a popculture definition.