Terminal /tttt/ brain

Obviously I'm a communist through and through, but why should I care about others outside the community when many cis people clearly aren't in the position materially to even begin to think about communism, let alone trans inclusive communism?

Being a communist isn't some identity you can pick out of a hat after you've read enough books, it's a practice, and the entire mindset here betrays a complete lack of practice. Liberation demands that we find and work hard to build movements that include us and cis people, it's cishet and queer solidarity that will eventually deliver the goods.

If this is how you feel, you need to organize. If you're already organizing and this is how you feel where you live, you need to find somewhere new to organize. You don't fight white capitalism with black capitalism, and you don't fight cishet capitalism with rainbow capitalism. Organize, you'll meet the most wonderful people you've ever met.

I am subject to discrimination so I will become a slumlord and exploit poor people

Like you realize the WASP nuclear family is probably the least likely demographic to be renting, right?

Obviously I'm a communist through and through

Obviously not

abusing your power as a landlord to benefit people you like at the expense of others is the best way to build socialism.

Libs are ok with slum landlords and rainbow capitalism. You aren't doing anything they'd disagree with.

It is wholly impossible to be both a slumlord and a communist.

That's not to say that communists need to be wearing a barrel with suspenders and drink water out of a drain, but being a landlord is a uniquely scummy thing to do. Most of the people who end up in shitty housing do so because they're desperate and have no other choice, they are most likely going to be queer people kicked out of their homes, the disabled, the neurodivergent, people of color, undocumented migrants, and so on. You're not going to get a conga line of cis white male chuds to skim off the top of. Society is setup specifically so they're the least likely to end up there.

This isn't to scold you, I don't know what's in your heart. You're right that you're going through a bout of misanthropy, and this way lies ruin. If you're fine with exploiting the people named above as long as they're cis then you're cutting yourself off from solidarity. I would recommend becoming an ancap at that point. Because why pay taxes to provide public services to cis people, or pay union dues to a union that mostly benefits cis people, and so on. And if the conditions are going to be indeed scummy and exploitative as you'd imagine them then if your tenants rent-strike then every leftist will be on the side of the tenants. Because again, by becoming a landlord you cut yourself off from solidarity.

This is the ultimate trick that capitalism plays on you. To convince you that a better world isn't coming any time soon so in the meantime you might as well become the exploiter rather than the exploited. But capitalism can only perpetuate itself through exploiters, however you might try to rationalise it. I'm not saying you need to forgive cisciety, fuck it, but solidarity is how we build a better world.

Also, you missed your timing, all the housing was bought up by Blackrock. You might want to get a finance degree and defraud people's savings accounts instead.

edit: also there are communities / communes / compounds that are owned wholly by trans people for the benefit of trans people, what you're looking for might already exist, and importantly they're fighting the good fight on top of it all

Lol

Lmao even

90%-ish of all demos have bad and reactionary opinions about other demos, particularly if you live in the imperial core. If taking personal revenge at substantial personal risk is the right approach to this, then you're basically just saying to be adventurist by going after a given demo. Given the depth to which reactionary thought has been entrenched through false consciousness, you would also surely end up targeting other oppressed people disproportionately if your bar becomes the extent to which a given demo is transphobic, homophobic, islamophobic, etc.

Being overly focused on a person's basic traits re: gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, etc, which are all categories with this same dynamic, is actually a false consciousness in yourself as well. The harm caused to trans people is real, and so is transphobia, and so is the preponderant of transphobia among cis people. But you are falling into a trap of false consciousness, in part due to the fact that, as you know, there is no such thing as perfect transdar. You will harm trans people with your guesswork. And you will become essentialist in your thinking.

And if you're a socialist talking about doing socialist things, your project has to be focused on changing society itself through organizing, not individualistic landlordism. Today is the height of trans liberation in the imperial core. There has been literally no better time to be organizing for trans liberation.

If you have the means to buy property then you can create a community space for your neighbourhood where you can host events or community kitchen on donation basis, you can rent out or where you can sell stuff. That’s basically what all similar initiatives in my area do to sustain themselves. Leftist organizing means organizing over all axes except class, because we do need that solidarity between all working class people in order to win.

The formula of making a protective space for a victimised group that then works on bettering the whole community where they’re located has been successful in many places so it might work in yours as well. Aside from the money you gain, the connection with the neighbourhood functions as a security layer. It also creates a breeding pot for more political organizing.

using this logic, why should we care about anyone in the imperial core

I think it helps to imagine everyone as an egg. Or at least has the ability to be an egg.

Or, sometimes I think "What if cis people aren't lying, and actually like the gender they were assigned at birth?" What if cis people are real? I just don't "get" being cis. This sort of thinking makes me empathize with cis people who are just generally confused about what we're talking about.

but why should I care about others outside the community when many cis people clearly aren’t in the position materially to even begin to think about communism

You know how anti-trans laws inevitably end up hurting gender non-conforming cis people as well? Well, if you start discriminating against cis people, you'll inevitably end up hurting trans people, too. Either because you're hurting an egg, or maybe you're hurting someone that's stealth. Or you might hurt a cis person that a trans person loves or depends on (We live in a society!!!!!!)

I genuinely think 90% of cis breeders hate their trans kids in some way and actively make their lives harder, even the lib ‘accepting’ ones.

Some of the shittiest people I've run into have been cis lib 'allies' with trans kids. Not because they're actively attacking you, but because they will insist on taking up space in trans spaces and often refuse to back down when you point out why something they're doing or have said is wrong or harmful.

At the same time I've run into cis people who are actually willing to throw down and so I can't write them all off.

I’m like 60% of the way to thinking ‘yeah I’m gonna be a terrible slumlord for cis people so I can make trans people live better lives, I’ll house them for free by taking money from the cis by being an exploitative landlord’.

lmao critical support