Whew! Took a while. And why? Because I like my luxuries: I want my strawberries in the winter and my AC in the summer. I want to take vacations overseas in big jet airliners. I want my disposable consumer products. I want a new TV every 5 years. And I need big oil for me to get all of those things.

Their actions were in the context of an entire society, a society that benefited immensely from their products in terms of quality of life and standard of living. But right now they’re looking less necessary so we want to offload all the blame for the entire modern way of life’s ecological consequences onto them…

That’s the question we need to be working on answering. All this witch hunt finger pointing accomplishes nothing (other than making very naive people feel good about themselves). Trying the oil companies for crimes against humanity does NOTHING to solve our problem. Imagining that somehow 7B humans can do without…

You (and me and everyone) provided the money those companies used to pay off those officials - we enabled them. And lets be clear: they didn’t even really need to pay them off. Our desire for easy lives is what is fueling this. WE exploit this world because we love our luxuries, because we are selfish, and because kick…

Yeah, sarcasm, just baiting the idiots who think “it’s all the fault of the big bad oil companies.” I was interested in hearing them state how they don’t use food, transportation, clean water, light, roads, housing, electricity, computers, packaging, etc. Only Ben Shapiro and his cronies use those things! /s

I stand corrected: expecting us take responsibility for our actions is pretty stupid. After all, we are human so deflection is pretty much a given.

All humanity is guilty of ecocide. Our presence on the Earth is what has brought us to where we are. You don’t think “Fossil Fuel Companies” produced fossil fuels for fun do you? They produced them to fuel the civilization that supports 7B+ people on this Earth. Those people all greedily lapped up what was produced.…

Sounds like you don’t know how awful the rest of us are (willful blindness): we all want to sit around in air conditioned luxury while pointing our fingers at everyone else. We enabled them, we hired them, and we pay them.

Uh oh - looks like I hit a nerve - don’t want to take responsibility for your own contribution to the problem, just want to blame others.

I have a real problem with declaring ecocide a crime against humanity, then going back and applying it to things people did before it was. That’s not how good laws work, that’s how mob justice works.  People should not accidentally be liable for serious criminal charges because their actions become politically…

This is stupid. If the oil companies are responsible, then we all are: they don’t buy their own product.

I’m sure when CPAC attendees start dying of coronavirus, they’ll probably deny it was coronavirus and call it freedom fever or something. 

Fuck off with this bullshit.

This guy does not give a single glorious fuck.

Eh, people have misunderstood him on this. What he said referred to the fact that the books, being published in English and some other languages with game covers, ended up being perceived as game tie-ins and while this got him some new readers, it also lost him readers who were put off by the perception that his books…

They are now blocked.

Rogue mage! Those who are not affiliated with the Brotherhood, are opposed to it, or have been decreed outlaws or outcasts. Most of them are mercenaries (they were hired by Witcher schools to resupply mutagens and help with the magic rites of the Trial of Grasses). 

I watched the whole thing yesterday and it was surprisingly good. It took me a little bit to figure out the timelines, but once I did it all came together.

Even earlier than that-- Episode 1. Ciri makes reference to her grandmother having fought a battle at her age, later in the episode Renfri mentions that Queen what’s-her-name having just won that battle. Makes it clear that the events with Geralt are happening at least a couple decades before the events happening in…