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   On 2026-01-05 2:04 p.m., BTR1701 wrote:   
   > Mamdani's Director of Tenancy, Cea Weaver, says NYC will transition private   
   > property to being a "collective good". This will apply not just to commercial   
   > residential buildings but individual homes as well.   
   >   
   > She says, "It will mean that especially white families are going have a   
   > different relationship to property than the one we currently have."   
   >   
   > In other words, she's going to try to take your house away from you and make   
   > it a public resource.   
   >   
   >   
   > https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2008031252692025344/vid/   
   vc1/1896x1080/e4HvOku0n8aLV3qR.mp4   
   >   
   > The 5th Amendment will have something to say about that, comrade. NYC might   
   > have elected a communist, but its government still has to obey the   
   > Constitution. And after the Justice Department is done with her, Cea Weaver   
   > will likely have a different relationship with her job than she currently   
   > has.   
   >   
   >   
   In the days after Lenin seized power in 1917, people with houses soon   
   found themselves sharing them with people who had previously had rather   
   poorer housing. It wasn't a voluntary thing. Homes for single families   
   became improvised apartment buildings, typically with whole families   
   assigned to a single small room, with just enough room for a bed or two   
   and not much more. Kitchens and bathrooms became shared property with   
   everyone getting assigned times to cook. (I'm not sure if they assigned   
   times for bathroom breaks.) This pattern persisted for DECADES, not just   
   a year or two. It was only in the 50s with Stalin dead that the   
   authorities finally started building "Krushchovkas" (named after   
   Stalin's successor Krushchev), standard-pattern 5 storey apartment   
   blocks with paper-thin walls and elevators that almost never worked.   
   These buildings still form the bulk of housing throughout Russia and its   
   former republics and satellites, where they are usually called "Commie   
   blocks" by English-speakers - and English-speaking Russians.   
      
   It sounds to me like Mamdani plans to do the same in NYC.   
      
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