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David Friedberg (post on @theallinpod, published 2026-07-25) says a speaker at an…

2026-07-25 · 02:05 UTC ·@theallinpod ·2 min read

Brief

David Friedberg responds to a July 25, 2026 post about a hearing led by NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani where a speaker equated evictions with violence, arguing this moralistic framing is a deliberate tactic to delegitimize landlords and erode private property rights. He invokes a purported 1787 John Quincy Adams quote to claim that when society stops treating property as sacred, it slides from anarchy into tyranny. Friedberg frames private property as the bedrock of American liberty—something immigrants sought when fleeing overlords who could seize possessions—and contends that calling landlords 'evil' is the first step toward legal and governmental confiscation. He warns these small acts compound into centralized socialist control (which he calls a 'Great American Politburo') and urges vigorous defense of property rights to prevent a tyrannical outcome.

Why it matters

David Friedberg (post on @theallinpod, published 2026-07-25) says a speaker at an NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani hearing who equated evictions with violence is an example of demonizing landlords to erode private property rights.

Key details

  • Friedberg invoked a 1787 John Quincy Adams remark—'The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred...'—to argue that weakening property protections produces a cascade from anarchy to tyranny.
  • He asserts private property rights are the foundation of American liberty, claiming immigrants fled non‑property regimes and that labeling landlords as 'evil' or 'violent' provides moral justification for government seizure.
  • Friedberg warns incremental moralistic framings will aggregate into a centralized socialist regime—a 'Great American Politburo' run by a cabal that seizes and controls private property—and urges Americans to 'vehemently defend' those rights.
Source evidence

David Friedberg: The Socialists Are Coming for Your Private Property Rights

At a recent hearing held by NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani, a speaker equated evictions with violence.

@friedberg says this demonization of landlords and the good/evil moralistic framing are signals that socialists are trying to erode private property rights in America.

“In 1787, John Quincy Adams had a comment, ‘The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.’

Private property rights are the foundations of liberty in America.

Because if you think about where everyone that came to America was coming from, there were these tyrannical governments where some overlord or some cabal could decide at any point to take the things that you have. You had no private property rights as an individual.

And it was that stasis that drove so many to come to the United States and say, ‘We want a place where individuals, one person, can say, I own something, and no one can take it from me.’

This idea that you can then claim acts of violence, that you can then claim circumstances of extraordinary extravagant wealth, and say to that individual, ‘I now have a right, the government now has a right to take your private property,’ ultimately leads to this tyrannical form.

And it starts out as being anarchic, and remember, anarchy is a temporary state. It's always in between one state and another.

All anarchies end up in tyranny, so anarchy and tyranny are one in the same.

And fundamentally, what's going on with these socialist principles is that, ‘We are taking your private property, and you no longer have rights on your private property. We now will have the right to come in and take your property and control it and take it from you.’

And it always starts with this framing of moralistic intent. ‘We are good, you are bad for the following reasons. You have committed violence against the people that live in your building.’

So the first framing is that the private property owner is evil, and that the private property owner has committed an act of injustice against those who don't have the private property. And that is the justification for taking away their private property rights.

And it is the beginning of this transition towards a tyrannical system, which will ultimately be what I call this kind of Great American Politburo or whatever socialist framework gets set up by the cabal of the socialists and what they're trying to put together.

So all of these little acts, while seeming ridiculous, and insane, and inappropriate, in aggregate are the same thing: They're a transition away from private property rights, which is the foundation of the United States of America.

That's why I think we should all be so shocked. And to John Quincy Adams' point, we need to vehemently defend those rights.

As soon as those rights start to slip away, even in the tiniest way, it is a cascading effect, and everything will become tyrannical, and it will be very ugly in the United States of America.”

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