☭CommieWolf☆

If your parents are Gen X, as are mine, and they grew up in either a poor urban environment (or just anywhere in the third world), odds are, that they are (through no fault of their own) very likely LITERALLY not as intelligent as you, purely down to childhood lead exposure. From all the research that’s been done, it results in people who are generally less intelligent, irritable, arrogant and argumentative, and I personally have dealt with this in likely some of it’s most extreme in the case of my family. My parents generation are all abhorrent, whereas my grandparents, and my siblings/cousins are all remarkably level headed and empathetic people. Maybe I am reading too much into it, but I’d rather it be out of my control than for me to waste my energy getting 50+ year old racists, transphobes, and zionists in my family to come around.

Out of all these, only art is subjective. But otherwise, fuck hate for all peoples!

I guess it depends on what your linguistic background is. Probably if you are already fluent in a Germanic language like Norwegian or Dutch or whatever it might be less difficult, but if you come from speaking a Romance language or even something not European at all, It’s a lot to wrap your head around.

Surprising amount of people learning German here, when you consider the limited scope. I know the basics but could never be bothered to justify the effort. I feel the sense that mastering German would take as much effort as perfecting Italian, Portugese, French, and probably even Esperanto on top. Not to mention it’s significantly less applicable and practical than most. If you live in a German country I could see the use, but man it’s so difficult otherwise.