Posted on 02/06/2026 7:54:29 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Let's see how things are going in the communist utopia of New York, a month after Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani was sworn in as mayor. Nearly two weeks after a massive winter storm hit the Big Apple, mountains of garbage line the still snow-covered streets (but not around Gracie Mansion, of course), and at least a dozen homeless people have frozen to death after Mamdani refused to force them into warming shelters despite the bitter cold. There were also blackouts, which is great when it's freezing outside.
Oh, and the number of antisemitic incidents in the city has skyrocketed, and Mamdani is siding with criminals who try to kill cops.
Add to that his advisors, who are racist and oppose private home ownership, plus a progressive tax plan that will seize wealth from New Yorkers, and it's a recipe for a mass exodus from the city.
But for one commie New York teacher, the solution to stopping businesses and wealthy New Yorkers from leaving the city is just to...seize the business and make it illegal to leave (some of us would call that "imprisonment").
🚨This video is going viral on X. This is who is teaching your kids in New York Public Schools. A guy who wants to seize your business and then make it illegal for you to leave the city. My full reporting behind whose funding this and more is in the comments. pic.twitter.com/Sf432UBYEe— Nate Friedman (@NateFriedman97) February 6, 2026
"That's what I would say, we should take their business. And we run it, like the city ourselves," the teacher, identified as Charles Berry, said. "I mean, they can't leave the building; they can't just bring their entire workforce to Florida. They can't bring all of the resources that they have to build a business here to Florida."
Yes, actually, they can. Does this guy really think that when a business moves, it takes the building with it? That it takes the employees with it? They may offer to help the employees relocate, but often times they just lay the employees off and rehire staff in the new state.
"And that's where you would even say we're building a real movement to stop that," Berry continued, "we'd also make it illegal for them to actually leave. We would fine them to hell if they're going to try to abandon their property here. Cause clearly people do need to work, people do need to make a living."
Berry is a New York Public Schools teacher, so while kids in the Big Apple can't read, write, or do math, they can think government can hold businesses hostage.
And Mamdani wants a massive corporate tax hike and a better "redistribution of wealth" in his city, so he's aligned with guys like Berry.
Editor’s Note: New York City is now facing the consequences of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s socialist takeover.
From Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged. Directive 10-289, Point #2.
All industrial, commercial, manufacturing and business establishments of any nature whatsoever shall henceforth remain in operation, and the owners of such establishments shall not quit nor leave nor retire, nor close, sell nor transfer their business under penalty of nationalization of their establishment and of any and all of their property.
Directive 10-289, Point #2 ping.
Will we be sending in Snake Pliskin for a rescue?
Wake up New York. Show us some resistance and maybe we’ll have your back?
All these commies know exactly how to run a business but they don’t start their own. Hmmmm.
All these commies know exactly how to run a business but they don’t start their own. Hmmmm.
What entrepeneur or investor in their right mind will commit private capital into a high tax, regulation happy, hostile socialist quagmire. Not only, despite this idiot’s fantasies, will people be pulling out, but there will be no new private investment in housing and commerce. Without investment, a place decays. Poverty, violence and political anarchy is the future in NYC.
So, the name of the Commie teacher is Chuck Berry.
That’s rich.
No kidding. Someone explain to the morons it’s a work of fiction, not a user manual.
Yeah. Into the ground.
NYC real estate prices are bound to go way down. Lots of supply and no demand. Maybe bottom feeders will show up when the commies partially capitulate.
Here's an analogy for ya.
The 9/11 hijackers took flying lessons on flying a jet, but they didn't care about takeoff (or landing).
They're going to "fly" NYC businesses into the ground.
I think this is the plan. They drive the prices WAY down and then the mayor and his cronies buy up a bunch of it.
Big cities suck.
socialism and communism, survives of capitalism, some on has to pay the bills
I may be naive, but what businesses exist in NYC? Isn’t it mostly service, sales, and restaurants? Is there any manufacturing?
Any business that is financial is virtual. There isn’t a trove of dollar bills that are physically handed out. There are people with ideas about handling other people’s money that most likely isn’t in NYC.
Sales is selling products that aren’t made in NYC.
Service and restaurants are servicing those that provide service and restaurants.
It’s is a circle that can lead to a downward spiral very easily. We will likely see it happen within one mayoral term.
EC
It’s NYC which, like ant city, is a shxthole. Let it collapse..don’t care.
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