From: atropos@mac.com   
      
   On Jan 5, 2026 at 1:25:13 PM PST, "Rhino"    
   wrote:   
      
   > 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   
   avc1/1896x1080/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.   
      
   Not only will all of this violate the 4th and 5th Amendments but the 14th as   
   well, since his exciting new collectivist plans have an overt racial element   
   to them.   
      
   And if he's not careful, he and his minions might also run smack into the true   
   purpose of the 2nd Amendment.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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