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   On 2026-01-05 4:30 p.m., BTR1701 wrote:   
   > 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/vi   
   /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.   
   >   
   >   
   Here's hoping!   
      
   I'm having trouble imagining him moving homeless people into ordinary   
   family homes, let alone the mansions of the rich. I don't think   
   Americans will stand for that. The lawyers will be drooling for the   
   chance to take this to court to get some easy wins - and I don't mean   
   the lawyers for the city!   
      
   --   
   Rhino   
      
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