HobbitFoot

The USA under Trump wants to make being an empire worth it financially while getting some territorial gains.

Greenland could be a second Alaska for the USA as Greenland has untapped mineral reserves and a strategic location in the Arctic Circle. Annexing Canada would be on par with the Louisiana Purchase or gains from the Mexican-American War. Panama is a major strategic asset.

Trump wants to leave Europe because he doesn't see anything for him by staying.

Russia is looking to reestablish its Soviet borders, with a focus on Europe. Belarus is a Russian puppet, but Ukraine can go either way and Ukrainian territory is strategically important to Russia. Beyond that, Russia would probably want to bring in the Baltic nations as well, which is probably what intelligence agencies refer to as Russia wanting to attack Europe.

Beyond reforming the old empire, Russia wants to establish a greater sphere of influence in Europe and weaken potential rivals. A united EU is a threat in that can provide a unified response to Russian expansion.

She isn't banned from running because she is fascist, but because she is corrupt.

And no one has defined what the future system would be

Yeah. When voters were given a choice between maintaining the status quo versus fascism, voters couldn't tell the difference until after fascism was implemented.

Or even displaying what community you're commenting in.

It's been dead for years. News can't operate in a world where the output is expected to be free.

I don't trust public wired charging ports to anything other my mobile battery.

Since I can't verify if a weird charging port won't upload malware on site, I'd use wireless charging instead.

The closest I've ever gotten to intentionally flirting and it succeeding was playing "Questions Only." with someone who didn't know I was playing this. My friend, who dared me to play, had to tell the target my name since I couldn't say my name since I had to respond to everything with a question.

So, um, learn to listen?

They had a revenue sharing agreement with Reddit is Fun, which got cancelled with the current management.

I thought the last scene was a bit of a cop out.

That's an entirely different situation all together now.