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On 2026-01-05 7:37 p.m., shawn wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Jan 2026 17:36:54 -0500, Rhino
> wrote:
>
>> 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/
id/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!
>
> That's because it would never happen. What might, but probably won't,
> happen is to use the places that are unoccupied as temporary housing.
> Imagine empty office buildings or other places that may have set empty
> for years being re purposed.
That sounds more plausible to me although even here he would face legal
challenges. Even if a given building has stood vacant for years and
could be renovated into decent housing, somebody owns those buildings
and I feel sure they will object to their property being expropriated.
They should have the full backing of the Constitution and laws of your
country. Now, obviously, expropriations of private property are legal
under limited circumstances but the owner still has recourse to the
courts as I understand it. If Mamdani wins those cases, then his
expropriations are legal and can proceed.
--
Rhino
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