From: atropos@mac.com
On Jan 5, 2026 at 4:37:02 PM PST, "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.
If I own a house and I want, for whatever reason, to leave it empty for a
period of time, that's none of the government's goddam business. It's *my*
house. I can rent it, live in it, leave it empty, let my kid stay in it for
free, or bulldoze it to the ground. Mam-fuckin'-dani doesn't get a say.
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