#toddlers would throw a whole tantrum for the dumbest shit

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#AITA My [29F] daughter [2F] is upset with me because I wouldn't let her jam her pencil in my eye, and now she's throwing a tantrum and my mom thinks it's my fault, am I the asshole in this situation? 😔

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i love your debate style so much cause people will say the dumbest shit and complete misrepresent trans rights and you'll just be like "oh of course not! here's a well reasoned counter :) also would you like to hear about this lighthearted but irrelevant thing" your url is completely correct and you are braver than any cop

And it works!

That’s the great thing about it!

If you treat every argument like a formal debate, TERFs shrink from it like a vampire from the sun. They aren’t used to people being so willing to calmly write a rebuttal and treat them like you’re both in a real debate. Without emotion and insults, whatever argument they are using falls apart - and the more detail you make them go into, the more they squirm.

Ask for sources. Ask for articles. Ask for clarification.

Take everything literally.

Show them that you aren’t angry, because why would you be? This is just a friendly debate, right? We’re just doing this over the benefit of knowledge.

I’ve gotten asks and comments that people either don’t respond to when I give them this treatment, or they get mad and block me, telling me that I’m too stupid to have this argument anyway. Okay! Take something from the prize box on your way out!

It’s been two days and I’m already scraping the bottom of the barrel of hate anons. No new ones are coming up, and if they do, it’s what usually amounts to a pitiful mew for attention. I’m imagining a toddler stomping their feet and whining, on the verge of throwing a fit.

“Why aren’t you maaaaaad? Pay attention to meeeeee! Why aren’t you doing anythiiiiiiiiiing? WAAAAAAAAAAAAA!”

I think I’m really taking a chunk out of them, and I couldn’t be happier. If you want, try using the same tactics! Here’s the steps, just in case you want to practice before you have your own tantruming child in your inbox:

How To Tick Off A TERF

1. Get the ask! Or the comment, post, or reblog. Take a good, hard look at it. Make sure you understand everything that the TERF is trying to say. This also keeps you from going in guns blazing when there’s really no need to respond at all. I’ve lost plenty of debates because I didn’t read everything clearly.

2. Take a deep breath. Maybe more than one, if you need. The best way to tick a TERF off is to not be pissed yourself. No matter how stupid they are being, remember that this is like a school debate, and they’ve pitted you against what amounts to a twelve year old child. Take a walk. Think about your response while making lunch. Sleep on it. Let your brain marinate in it. Don’t answer until you are completely calm. Remember not to take this personally, even if you know someone who is trans or you are trans. Anger is not how you win this battle, I promise.

3. Kill with kindness. When you start writing your response, put yourself in the mindset of a kind, child-like entity that’s just excited about learning together with someone. It sounds super weird, but that’s how I do it. Pretend that the argument you received has merit and weight, but don’t trick yourself into thinking that it has any bearing on anything. Don’t use insulting or emotional language. It may feel good to let off steam, but it doesn’t prove your point in the long run.

4. State your case. Write your rebuttal in a clear, well-worded way. Stay away from long metaphors or examples - they’ll just get more confused and angry. If you can, include articles, statistics, and sources for all your information, if you can find them. Keep going back to the TERFs argument to make sure you don’t miss anything. Try to predict any obvious arguments they may make and prepare for them. Read it once more before sending.

5. Let you phone boil. What I mean by this is to leave your phone somewhere for a while while your post/message circulates. This not only rests your brain, but it keeps you from anxiously waiting for the TERF to respond. Turn your notifications off. Relax. You did good.

6. Repeat. This person may send you several messages, and may reblog several times. Make sure to follow the steps each time you make your next rebuttal.

7. Use positive language and reinforcement. Like I said, the best way deescalate is to be as formal, put-together, and kind as possible. Treat them like a very misguided child - because that’s truly what they are sometimes. And this also brings up the possibility to younger TERF members that maybe the trans community isn’t so bad (like they had been taught to believe), and that maybe they shouldn’t be afraid of us. We aren’t dangerous. We just want to support the people who don’t get a whole lot of support. Bring up a happy memory. Include a picture of something cute. Make a cute little scenario (my favorite is the prize box). This will either lower their anger or heighten it to a rage, where their true intentions come to light and they lose the debate.

8. Have fun! Really, have fun. Misinformation is bad, but you can’t convince someone who won’t listen. Just treat it as a game, because that’s all it is to you. Unlike the TERF community, you have better things to do than argue with people on the internet. Put your own spins on it! Support people who choose to change! Ignore people who don’t! In other words, take the piss out of people who are full of it.

I hope this helps, my friend! This will probably get a lot more hate anons, so feel free to stick around for the show.

I’m anxiously waiting for the first KYS. Feel free to place bets on when that’s going to happen. I’m saying before the next ten asks. Any takers?

[gaymafia]

I’m legitimately curious why people didn’t like the last Jedi? I saw it and thought it was okay? Is there something I missed or? Like it wasn’t great but it was passable?

ok so i wasnt gonna do this here bc nobody fucking asked but u asked so thank u but also strap in ur ready for a while ride

TLJ spoilers, obviously. also my issues are going to be numbered in no particular order bc my thoughts on this movie are so fucking scrambled but here we go

1. Kyle Ron. First of all fuck Ryeanne for making me see so many goddamn closeups of Adam Driver’s ugly ass face. I did not need to see all that he is so goddamn ugly especially that fucking shirtless scene where he looks like a block of pasty ass pale wood.

But for real, Kylo Ren. I don’t actually take issue with his existence, because Kyle really does excellently represent rich ass white boys who have everything handed to them but throw a hissy fit when they face the slightest adversity an throw tantrums all the time. It’s nice to see a villain that represents most people real-life nightmares instead of like, a Sexy Temptress or Old Evil Man or whatever. That being said, kyle is not given the villain’s treatment in this movie. if you cut out all the scenes where ryan is not actively sucking adam driver’s dick and jizzing all over himself over kyle’s angsty white boy angst, the movie has virtually no real plot (”oh no we are in space with no fuel, nobody is going to do anything except get mad at each other, miscommunicate, and deliberately make all the characters of color worthless while separating Finn and Poe bc fuck the gays”). So much of the movie is spent not just establishing how kyle became kyle (which is good! backstory for villains is good!), but trying to get us to like, sympathize with him? which is the shitty part. I dont care that Luke “”””tried to kill”’’’ (he didn’t) kyle. kyle had turned to the dark side before luke’s mistake. kyle had a million and one chances to change his mind from the start of TFA to the end of TLJ, and he never did. Kyle is an evil guy. We need one of those. He’s a great evil guy bc he’s got so many shitty qualities. But ryin doesnt want us to hate kyle, even tho hes the villain. why the fuck doesnt reean want us to hate kyle? bc rayan is also a shitty little man who thinks giving ur white boy a sob story makes him a sympathetic villain and sidelining ur characters of color will help.

also again the fucking shirtless scene what the shit man that was so gross

2. Will be broken down into A, B, C, etc. bc TLJ treats its characters of color like SHIT. 

2A. Finn. Finn gets put in a coma bc why would anyone want to write anything interesting for john boyega its not like hes the MOST BEAUTIFUL MAN and the MOST TALENTED ACTOR who is being sidelined bc ryun hates black people. Yeah Finn is totally into Rey and he wants to save her and is willing to desert the rebellion for her. that happened in the first movie but why give your characters real arcs when you can recycle old ones to jerk off to kyle ron. the rose thing happens, shes like “we can disable the tracking” and like TWO SECONDS after he was dead set on desertion he’s totally down to risk his life for the rebellion at rey’s expense? that sure is a quick 180 with no real reason why and no writing to explain it! then there was the whole “separate finn and poe” thing ryain pulled for the shits and giggles.

2B. Rose. I was pretty chill with Rose, she had a dope backstory, her sister was badass, and I liked that they made that connection off the bat. I’m not mad about anything rayn did with her character but i genuinely believe thats only because i havent thought about it enough yet. give me a week and i’ll figure out how rain fucked it up. open to suggestions.

2C. Poe. Full offense but was I supposed to be mad at Poe for coming up with a plan when that bitch Holdo was like “I’m not gonna tell you my plan sit tight and be convinced we are all going to die :)” i legitimately did not understand how I was supposed to be mad at poe for doing what he thought was best for the rebellion after he asked holdo what the plan was and she was deliberately obstinate and refused to even be like “dont worry i have a plan” she was just like. so dumb. Also poe got thrown around a lot and i am A Little Suspicious of how much physical violence he experienced compared to many other characters.

2D. You guessed what was next! The slaps! Super awesome how the two men of color were slapped by white people!!!! So deep!!!!!!! For real tho uh the second time i saw this movie someone in the audience laughed when poe got slapped by space hitler hux and uh??? not funny. not funny or cute or clever to use the guy you built your entire nazi imagery on to slap the one black man on your cast. i dont care if it was supposed to make us “hate hux” or whatever more. i already hated hux reyn. you could have used that screentime in your 3 fucking hour long movie for something valuable, like giving finn a character arc, or literally anything else besides that goddamn slap. i was livid watching that.

and then with leia and poe? i get that part of the conflict was internal in the resistance and one of the major themes was how failure is the best teacher and all that but like? maybe stop physically assaulting all your characters of color? maybe uhhhh at least think about that first??

2E. like i mentioned before one of the obvious themes was how failure is the best teacher so naturally all the major characters had to fail at something, and then learn from their mistake to be better next time. with luke it was fucking up with kyle, with rey it was being naive enough to think kyle could turn, with poe it was the dreadnaught thing, finn was left out of this because raan dooesn give a shit abt finn bc hes a racist bastard, etc. but it was incredibly transparent how all of the white characters’ mistakes meant either personal losses or something small scale with one person, while the mistakes of the characters of color (poe/finn/rose) were all ones that cost the rebellion the vast majority of their forces. rey got out of her fight with kyle and snoke unscathed. luke got a lot of guilt and character development. What did finn poe and rose get? the deaths of like 99% of the resistance on their shoulders. A little too coincidental that even though rey LITERALLY GAVE HERSELF OVER TO SNOKE she was totally fine a-ok no real scars, finn and poe and rose doing their best to save the rebellion while admiral holdo refuses to tell them anything costs the resistance so fucking much. rey does the DUMBEST FUCKING THING with no real consequences and finn and poe and rose try their best and are punished severely for it.

2F. Really convenient how everything finn, poe, and rose did ended up being useless and just cost the rebellion lives, whereas at least rey’s mishap got snoke killed and taught her a lesson. reeeeaaaalllllyyyyyy convenient how finn, poe, and rose’s plan was a huge waste of time. it would have been much better for us to see an actual plot line with them that contributed to the story and their characterizations instead of “send them on a goose chase, make it pointless in the end, physically brutalize them along the way.

3. R*yl* bullSHIT: ryyn had a really fun time with a lot of very rape-y scenes in this movie. the whole force-connection thing with kyle and rey was soooooo uncalled for, it reeked of non-con fantasies, catered to the r*yl*s like nothing ever before, and was so goddamn gross. the obvious invasion of privacy and lack of consent was nasty, using it as a shitty device to make rey “come around” on kyle was NASTY and that whole thing was nasty. i know im not articulating this well but there was so much about that whole thing that bothered me. i just know reyhan was so fucking into it, inserting kyle into rey’s life, forcing her to completely drop all of her characterization in the first movie to suddenly thing kyle can be good, acting as if rey hasnt seen all the shit and known what hes done. the whole thing was gross and a really obvious example of why men shouldn’t be allowed to direct movies.

4. killing snoke was a dumbass fucking mistake. kyle is a tantrum-throwing temper-losing toddler. snoke was evil and mysterious and shit idk. we knew he was powerful as fuck, he looked like a testicle which is a great villain imo, he was the darth sidious and they killed him off while kyle is still in like. ep2!Anakin levels of angst. i get that kyle is already powerful or whatever but like. hes not cold and calculated the way snoke was. kyle is a good villain, but a weak main baddie bc hes dumb as fuck. he let the rebellion get away bc he was pissed at luke. that was dumb as fuck. kyle is ruined by his emotions, and snoke was a scarier main baddie bc he wasnt so fucking dumb lol

5. it was so fucking long. there were so many scenes that could have been cut or shortened. why did we need to see luke milking the tiddy of that weird alien cow thing. why did we need to see kyle ron shirtless. why did we need so many goddamn shots of the fucking porgs.

6. ya the porgs are cute or whatever but like. that whole “look at how sad the cute big-eyes porg is when chewie is eating his friend” thing was so dumb. i dunno why but i hated that the most. that was the worst thing the porgs did. they were cute but like chill disney u know they like ran algorithm after algorithm to make that porg the cutest it could be with science or some bullshit and like? thats dumb.

7. i get that the humor in star wars movies is shifting but i felt like there was too much of it and it was dumb. a lot of the riffs werent funny and there were too many of them for a star wars film. star wars usually doesnt take itself too seriously, but this one was a little too much for me.

8. there were too many plot twists for shock value. the story went on too long. it should have ended earlier but it didnt. i dont know why ryenn decided to have like 6 different climaxes but it was too much. should have let there be one climax buddy. thats it.

9. holdo. besides holdo being the white feminist icon why didnt she just fucking tell poe the plan. why. why was so deliberately obstinate when it was doing no good. like yeah of course poe sent out a crew to try to save the rebellion all u told him to shut up and let you handle it! obvously what she did in the end was badass or whatever but like uh hun next time dont be a piece of shit and then get mad when people react to you being a piece of shit. i would have been okay with all that happening if holdo wasnt treated like some hero who never made any mistakes. she did make a mistake, and that was refusing to tell poe what her plan was when she knew he was absolutely the type to do whatever he could to save the rebellion whether he had her permission or not. also apparently holdo is a lesbian or bi or not straight or something in like the comics or whatever and like 1. classic bury ur gays but also 2. no more word of god gay characters if a character is not gay in the movies i will not give you the gay cred for it sorry homophobes

10. i didnt buy the story w luke and kyle at lukes jedi training facility or whatever. surprisingly, i was ok with lukes story line and character development, and actually agreed with it for the most part, but i just like. i dunno i didnt feel like that was something luke would do. not because luke is infallible (even tho he is my gay dad who has never done anything wrong ever) but because the entire original trilogy is luke believing darth vader could be saved. and while im not opposed to luke changing his mind about whether or not everyone could be turned away from the dark side (luke was young and optimistic in the original trilogy, and as he grew older he would learn more about the jedi and their history like the whole speech he gave rey about how the jedi have to end bc theyre lowkey shitty). i actually kind of liked luke’s hot take on the jedi, because it was lowkey my hot take on the jedi (esp the prequels jedi who were shitty as Fuuuuuck but we are ignoring the prequels for now lbr) but also because i could believe it was a view luke would come to as he aged. but impulsively drawing his lightsaber to kill kyle before he had actually done anything bad, after suspecting that kyle had darkness in him for a while, even though he felt like he had failed? it just didnt feel like luke to me. i felt more like raeyn had chosen that particular backstory to try to make kyle a more sympathetic villain rather than give a believable and in-character back story for the characters. i understand that luke’s failure ultimately has to lead to the creation of kyle ron in this story line, but that didnt feel like the right failure to me. maybe this is just me being nitpicky but that felt off to me too and i dont know if i can quite pinpoint why.

11. rey was a dumbass fucking bitch in this movie. rey could not be a dumbass fucking bitch to survive as a scavenger who was orphaned at birth on jakku. rey would have had to be smart and not as fucking DUMB as she was in this movie. now im getting heated so i cant articulate this well but she just did so many dumb things that anybody who had to raise themselves would have never done. she would never have delivered herself over to kyle ron like what a dumb fucking idea. who wrote this goddamn movie. fuck u ryeen.

12. why did yoda come back as a force ghost. where is anakins force ghost. he would be so fucking pissed at kyle right now. he would be mad as hell. he would have ended this thing. he would have called kyle out like the shitdickbitch he is and put him in his place. i get that yoda is more like ancient and orginal star wars jedi knowledge shit or whatever and like more of an authority on the jedi but like anakin is off in like force ghost hawaii drinking force ghost martinis while his shitty fucking grandson is being a piece of shit?? nah man anakin would have shut that shit down they better bring him back for ep IX and i expect hayden christensen himself to show up to bitch at kyle about what a fucking dumbass he is.

tbh theres probably more like i know there’s a ton of little things i hated but as scathing as this review is there were things i liked. visually speaking it was a very beautiful movie when we werent getting atrocious close ups of adam drivers ugly ass face. i originally hated but have come to appreciate the darker tone, since it mirrors the mood of TESB in that the rebellion seems dead but obviously isnt bc this is star wars. i liked luke. i dunno. i had a lot of issues with the movie obviously. to be quite honest i cant actually think of anything else i liked atm which is telling.

anyway if anybody actually reads this long ass fucking post feel free to respond with what you hated abt TLJ

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Let’s Talk About Georgia

All right so most of my followers including my international followers know that those of us in the US have been dealing with a giant orange toddler being placed in our highest office and everyone with a brain having a panic attack about it, while the dumbest and/or most racist, sexist, homophobic, and otherwise bigoted of our people think this is just great. You know, Russia meddling, Twitter tantrums, that whole thing.

Well, barring someone finding some truly damning evidence that the GOP can no longer ignore, the earliest the sane people of this country can get even a little control back in the long run in 2018, when our next big election year is. No we can’t get rid of the Orange Menace but we can reduce the strangehold his party has on our legislative branch of government, since about a third of one body is up for re-election and the entirety of the other house is also up for re-election, as well as a smattering of local and state level races as well. However, special elections do come up to fill vacanies, and we had two of those last night.

(This got long so I’m going to do my followers a favor hide the rest of the post from their dashboards)

Democrats (those would be the good guys) decided to throw all of their money and backing into one of those elections, although the guy in the other race apparently did a lot better than anyone predicted he would so maybe they should have gone after that race? Either way they didn’t, they went after the seat representing Georgia’s sixth distract.

What’s interest about both races is that they are VERY conservative districts that, in any other election, Democrats probably wouldn’t have bothered with because there just isn’t a path to victory in those places...normally. And while both Democrats lost the chance to give our side some much needed ground in the legislative battles ahead, it does paint an interesting picture that I think a lot of people are missing.

Deep red districts are suddenly competitive in this political environment. Imagine what would happen in a swing district under the same circumstance. 

While a lot of people are decrying “close isn’t good enough they still lost”, well, that really isn’t all there is to it. Again, these are deeply conservative districts and the GOP was fighting tooth and nail to keep that seat out of Georgia in a district where they have had to do it. Unless, you know, the leader of their party is an extremely unpopular idiot. 

Again, I would have been THRILLED to see the SC or GA races go blue this time out but that didn’t happen. And while that’s going to make legislative battles until 2019 nightmare fuel for anyone who isn’t a straight white dude that understands how bad this administration and the GOP at large are, it still bodes well for the next big election cycle. People are mad and in more competitive districts that’s going to be HUGE.

I’ve got a friend on Facebook (really one of my mom’s friends) who is a die-heard Clinton fan to the point where she might actually hate Bernie Sanders even more than Tiny Hands McGee and seems to be of the opinion that Democrats shouldn’t change anything - they won the popular vote, after all, so who cares about moderates and independents?

Well, she should - like, oh boy, she really, REALLY should. 

Here’s the thing - the Democratic base is going to go for the Democratic candidate most of the time and the mouth-breathers voting for the GOP really just need to see the troglodytes they vote into office go “look, a gay person exists!” to be whipped up into a foaming at the mouth hate frenzy in the voting booth. You’re not going to get me to vote for a Republican unless the Democrat has done something completely abhorrent (which is not the non-story that was Benghazi and certainly not over a fucking email server) and you’re not going to get GOP voters to vote blue unless their guy like, brags about sexually assaulting women-wait, no, they actually did that time, maybe if they assault a reporter-no, no, they voted that guy in, too, maybe insinuating children should starve OH COME ON GOP VOTERS WHAT THE FUCK!?* No, the voters both parties need to be clammoring for are independents and moderate voters, the people in the middle who don’t feel strongly about one side or the other. Last year those people either stayed home, wrote in Bernie in their own version of a foaming at the mouth temper tantrum, or got nervous because of the 2016 version of the Comey memo**. These are the people whose votes ACTUALLY MATTER. Moderate and independent voters living in swing states are the ONLY people who matter in US elections.

Does this suck? YES. YES IT DOES. The US probably needs to get at least one more major party into the fray in order to balance things out a bit, but that’s a whole different blog post because there’s issues with that aren’t really relevant here. The point is that whether we like it or not, this is the state of American politics right now. You have TWO choices for the most important political figrues representing you - sometimes, SOMETIMES you get an Independent or Libertarian governor or senator somewhere, but NEVER the POTUS - and that’s IT. Americans had to choose between Hillary Clinton, a flawed but otherwise incredibly qualified candidate, or Putin’s Pee Pee Tape Puppet. Moderate voters in a small number of swing states decided this election. And while those people failed us this time, those are the people who CAN be won over and we need going forward. 

And the good news is? They’re already pissed. Toupee the Terrible has a whopping 64% disapproval rating, the highest the rating has been for the last several presidents (as in I’m not even sure RICHARD NIXON ever had a disapproval rating that high and that guy resigned in shame). He also got there in record time - he’s yet to have a net positive approval rating (though he cited one pollster that gave him a 50% but I’m suspecting that pollster may have mostly polled GOP voters) and since his approval rating is about a 35-36, that means its basically his base of die-hard racist fans vs. literally everyone else. Yeah, maybe those people weren’t enough to win Georgia or South Carolina but they represented a massive swing towards the left in those districts, like 20 percentage points worth. Now imagine those kinds of numbers in districts that were a lot closer than 20 points. 

Now this is still really bad - like, SUPER bad. And sadly, this administration probably will kill people. Ever see this picture floating around Tumblr?

Yeah, the height of the AIDS crisis happened during the Reagan administration and was largely ignored because it mostly affected the LGBTQ population and the GOP doesn’t really give a shit about them. They probably didn’t act until they realized that straight people, especially straight white people, could be infected via blood transfusions. Today’s GOP has done a LOT of stuff to hurt people, though the big two are pulling out of the Paris Accords (for fuck’s sake NORTH KOREA has the moral high ground over us on this issue***) and the AHCA, which is basically just a giant tax cut to rich people at the cost of healthcare for everyone else. There is a six year old CHILD in DC lobbying to save the ACA because it’s believed that there’s a good chance the new bill will get rid of the ban on lifetime limits, meaning if an insurance company sees you’ve already spent $1 million in medical bills over the course of your lifetime you don’t get any insurance for the rest of you life, and this poor kid reached that TWO TIMES before he was even a year old. 

This is going to get voters angry. Most people know someone with a pre-existing condition and once voters see those people they love getting screwed by the new healthcare bill they won’t be happy. You all know someone in your personal life with a pre-existing condition, and if you somehow don’t, I am both an asthma patient and a cancer survivor. EITHER could get me dropped from my insurance if the GOP gets their way. 

Okay that started to get off topic as I increasingly couldn’t figure out a way to end this so...yeah, go vote blue in 2018. 

*Yeah you know who the first one is but the second two? Those are both real GOP candidates who really won elections in 2017. Apparently the GOP is now the party of reporter punching and starving children.

**This number is a lot harder to pin down but unfair voting laws also probably blocked people from voting. See, unless you’re a minor or a felon, you cannot be denied the right to vote in this country, but that doesn’t mean the GOP hasn’t figured out ways to make it REALLY hard for “certain voters” (usually this means minority voters) to get to the polls. This usually comes in two flavors:

1. Limiting the number of polling places in left-leaning neighborhoods. This means the lines at the polling places that ARE open are a lot longer, so voters will a) get frustrated and leave or b) leave because they have other commitments, such as their jobs, that they have to return to. Employers HAVE to give you time off to vote but it’s like, two hours or something like that. It’s very feasible that a crowded, left-leaning neighborhood with only one polling place when they should really have two or three or more may have wait times even LONGER than that. Pretty sure that in these cases lots of polling stations open up in right leaning neighborhoods. 

2. Voter ID laws. Now in theory this one isn’t completely terrible, it’s what they do with these laws in practice that makes it a problem. A lot of these voters the GOP doesn’t like (remember, minority voters) may have a harder time getting a state-issued ID, either because there aren’t enough government offices issuing IDs (similar to the insufficient poling place problem) and the ones that do exist may be hours away from left-leaning communities, the office has a difficult schedule to work with (as in sometimes these offices may only be open for something like a few hours a couple of days a week) or they’re cost prohibitive to people with already tight budgets to work with. 

Other flavors usually involves getting rid of or not implementing programs that make voting easier, such as early voting, same day voter registration, or mail-in ballots, all of which make it MUCH easier to vote.

***Yes, North Korea is a part of the Paris Accords - so’s Russia and basically every other country the US doesn’t play nice with. The only other countries that aren’t in the agreement are Syria, which is currently engaged in really brutal civil war right now so they aren’t really in a position to get involved in stuff like this right now, and Nicaragua, which didn’t sign on because they didn’t think it was strict enough. I suppose there are probably some micronations and unrecognized nations that probably aren’t on the treaty, either, but we’re talking about a microscopic segment of the world population. Lord Dampnut pulled us out to make his buddies in the energy industry happy and/or to continue erasing President Obama’s accomplishments because of that one time he made fun of him at the White House Correspondent’s Dinner. Because he is a petulant child.