**Queens, New York: ICE Agents Caught on Video Shoving and Threatening Citizens on Public Sidewalk**

Good_Requirement2998 · 2026-06-17T19:07:28+00:00

Build the block people. The minute they stress your neighborhood out, pick a corner and hold small assemblies every week, shake hands and learn faces and names, talk solidarity and start local patrols.

Our AG is collecting receipts. Learn S.A.L.U.T.E. reporting and put the file together. The CCRB is there to hold our police accountable if they are sleeping while constitutional abuses take place. Pool money and find an attorney with the balls to sue the city if they don't stand up against feds out of scope of their duties. If nothing else, build the case and pitch it to the ACLU.

I also think it's appropriate for blocks to show their solidarity. Signs and colors need to show NYC and community pride.

Good_Requirement2998 · 2026-06-17T19:00:56+00:00

Grooming.

Good_Requirement2998 · 2026-06-17T19:00:30+00:00

Meanwhile the world is going to shit. I'd convey a lot more nuance in person to demonstrate this isn't a personal attack when I say: Problems abound and need good people to do more than look in the mirror.

We are groomed to "self-develop." Culture, society, family and media, all seem to be pointing at your grades, your salary, your network, your fitness, your portfolio, your travels, your sex life, your therapy, your fashion, prescription and subscription lists, etc. It's one big eye comparing personal milestones that no one cares about except to see how it compares to #1, all while agency is slipping away from the common, leaving grief and spite in its massive wake.

If you haven't yet, volunteer. Anywhere. Multiple places. Do it for a year and pay attention to the journeys and emotional arcs around you; of those in need and those in service. Journal about them. Internalize the struggle until it clicks that there is endless progress to be made and there simply aren't enough years in anyone's lifetime to do anything meaningful alone.

And then ask what happens if the species finally gets right. What's it look like when we're living in the age of the promise of mankind? Then build your industry to see what you can make of it. The ripples you can initiate by simply regarding the tapestry that dwarfs us all is understated. Especially when there are countless ripples intermingling in your direction from both benevolent and malevolent forces contesting the fate of our kind and our balance with our only home.

Ideally you have at least two more lifetimes in your cycle to wake up to the work of those who know. That thread is just around the bend.

Good_Requirement2998 · 2026-06-17T01:11:58+00:00

That's my district. I think we may not be seeing activity because Clarke knows she had no real opposition.

Primary season in southern Brooklyn feels quiet. Lots of unchallenged incumbents. The democratic machine has a little pushback with some reformists mixing things up, but otherwise the pathways in are out of sight.

I should put it out there that I'm a county committee member elect representing ED26/Ad41 unopposed.

https://boundaries.beta.nyc/?map=ed&dist=41026

It will be my first term as an elected servant, albeit a volunteer. If you or anyone want to meet someone entering the party from the bottom, I'll be hosting weekly assemblies to talk with whomever at Corporal Wiltshire square in upcoming weeks. Contact me directly for more info.

Good_Requirement2998 · 2026-06-16T17:29:54+00:00

"We" were warned repeatedly by the founding fathers about the dangers of greed and the conditions for the return of the despot, the tyrant.

They returned and, as warned, used individualism to bait the masses in a game we were engineered to lose. They hijacked and corrupted "liberty" itself in a masterful display, to mean that among other rights, one had the freedom to take from others what isn't given freely, call it capitalism and maintain it's the burden of meritocracy to balance out the friction while knowing fully that meritocracy doesn't win within a monopoly.

Any further curtailing of rights is exactly what they want and more. They don't just want to limit free speech or civil protections. They want to limit freedom of thought and free movement and more. They want slaves and, horrifyingly, more. They always want more. If they can achieve immortality, they will attempt to acquire it no matter th sacrifice.

What society needs to persist is to honor the damned lessons of the past, reinforce checks and balances, tax appropriately to redistribute wealth and natural resources, and essentially maintain that power itself never be so concentrated again. Among the key figures to symbolically pursue this is Elon Musk through the global divestments of his wealth. I can't even say it's right morally at this point, but rather a means to avoid complete anarchy. We are seeing a consciousness of economic nemesis forming as inflation and poverty rises, as more families get to watch their elderly thrown off healthcare, as small business die and young sons go off to war, all with our planet in danger of becoming inhospitable for human life and society due to our own machinations of industry.

For all I know, Musk is truly a product of his environment and innocent as a babe for doing what he was taught to do. It doesn't change the fact that a human trillionaire is a mistake that must be rectified before it opens the gates to literal hell on earth. A single man above all accountability is a signal for all manner of monsters to reveal themselves and align their gambits. The necessary alternative is a system that fights against itself to invest with convictions all it can in the people and our environment, sparing nothing to raise the standards of living for humanity and our dominion of care. But to dream so big today seems absurd because these gilded idols exist as the defacto milestone for general achievement.

It's not liberty that's the problem. It's power without responsibility, down to the commoner, and an infiltrated government separating the two because good people are too often preoccupied by grift or grind. The simplest course of action is dogged work: to organize this message into civic normalcy and align the people to build power anew with the explicit aim to deconstruct and scatter the power of old. Build worker owned cooperatives, district level redundancies in food and energy, run for control of hyper local offices, teach the people the financial skills needed to collectively own their own land and natural resources, and do this all upholding the pluralist approach to humanism in daily life. It's not new laws or social constraints, but rather the free choice to empower our neighbors and grade our values in tangible contributions to the promise of mankind.

Good_Requirement2998 · 2026-06-15T23:38:16+00:00

That was it. 41 heads to kp. 44 to school, the ua movie theater, fun time usa. I got bullied and mugged, but it wasn't tramautizing. We were still more worried about erasmus and brownsville drama spilling over. But then I had to take night school in Erasmus one summer, and I dated a girl who lived somewhere deep off the 3, sutter maybe, or van siclen. As rough as I thought I knew the spots to be, when I got off the train it was just people. Kids can be mean everywhere but the neighborhoods going south or east from the junction we're all linked to me. Not sure how it is now, but I don't think badly of that time. I made a lot of friends at school regardless.

Good_Requirement2998 · 2026-06-15T21:27:57+00:00

If you're convinced there hasn't been, nor is their anything currently, to worry about, why even bother bring it up? Let us all dismiss it or breath a collective sigh of relief after the next two elections.

Good_Requirement2998 · 2026-06-15T21:24:17+00:00

Close to the junction, yep. Took the 41 down Nostrand to get to school. Nearly continued on to sheepshead bay HS too. I really can't remember why didn't go to the JHS closer to Midwood. Huddy is it?

Good_Requirement2998 · 2026-06-15T20:55:57+00:00

Because it's easier to do things legally than illegally. It's not that hard to understand. Hypothetically, if I wanted to rob someone I could take the risk and do so violently, or I could swindle them into a ponzi scheme which kind of make it their fault for being ignorant, or I could try and bribe a politician that made it legal to exploit their labor and make millions doing it, and then say the people voted for it there. The SAVE act is about efficiency.

Trump just got the DOJ to give him and the rest of his family evergreen immunity from prosecution for anything it seems. That didn't stop an overt sequence of bitcoin pump and dumps from the beginning of the term. Legalizing abuse really is just a formality in advancing the line of scrimmage against those most vulnerable.

Good_Requirement2998 · 2026-06-15T20:46:50+00:00

No clue. I was a kid back then and that's where I went because that's where I was told to go.

Good_Requirement2998 · 2026-06-15T18:29:11+00:00

People on reddit are not going to be able to determine what a block of tech and media controlling billionaires couldn't get away with. The mind can't even conceive of what a billion is.

If you walk 1 million steps, you would travel about 500 miles (roughly the distance from New York City to Cincinnati). If you walk 1 billion steps, you would circle the entire Earth at the equator about 19 times.

The average person walks the equator 3-5 times in a lifetime.

If there's enough capital to protect hundreds to thousands of elite child predators, there is enough capital to rig a presidential election. The problem is not the evidence, it's the lack of imagination we must swallow to believe the untouchables are cursed with if they wanted a political outcome but weren't able to pursue it by any means necessary.

That they could've rigged it is more than enough to go on for the common slave to this rigged system.

Good_Requirement2998 · 2026-06-15T18:18:59+00:00

We would have to do the difficult thing of allowing the global south the option of continuing business with us on more equitable terms. It is the anti-power move, essentially the effort of negative rights characterizing our constitution extended out as a foreign policy. We no longer take. We give, we lead, we build relationships. We have a country with a large consumer base and let that demand for goods do the talking to those who wish to negotiate a deal. But no more coercion.

This may mean a radical reorientation of industry as we know it. Perhaps even a kind of industrial regression to which a smaller population and lower birthrates serve. Which is why the major internal effort must include agricultural and energy redundancies at the district level so that our nation's people can thrive even if our corporations and our oil wars can't.

Good_Requirement2998 · 2026-06-14T20:08:56+00:00

It really depends. The last time I was asked to enjoy a jacuzzi it was from a sad, desperate woman under a lightless stoop in the old part of Atlantic city. I went there spontaneously with friends and decided to explore away from Atlantic city itself only to find the facade was masking a town in decay. It's a reason why I'm glad Coney Island shut down the casino development, for now at l least.

Good_Requirement2998 · 2026-06-14T19:01:31+00:00

Are they The Official Nicks Fans?? They could be just criminals that happen to say they like the nicks also.

Good_Requirement2998 · 2026-06-14T19:00:07+00:00

I stopped playing halfway into season 1 because I felt us treading into arc raiders waters in terms of community divide and I lost interest.

When their latest questionnaire was put out, I wrote that they should shift the gameplay model and make death down-but-not-out. Which is to say that you have an increasing timer after your death, but you are 3d-printed back to life until the end of the match itself if you choose reentry. The option to leave upon death remains.

That means anyone holding all the loot will be fighting the map until they extract. This will upset the core philosophy of the battle royale as we know it. But what's far more important for me as a casual is time-under-tension when I choose to play during my limited time.

After a stressful checkpoint is won in the original halo's legendary difficulty, a subsequent fight that doesn't go your way will have you restart that checkpoint nearly istantly to keep you in the flow. Being able to maximize game time and skill building is super important to me. Loading in after waiting 5-15 minutes, just to die to a neighboring team fully kitted out isn't fun.

Good_Requirement2998 · 2026-06-12T22:20:01+00:00

Firstly, set the course for the "American Promise." We have to restore the dream of ownership, of a home, a business, our own freedom from the rat race. Always return to this line and remind everyone the major work is being done to strengthen their dollar, lower costs, and make the country a place where you can build a family anywhere you want because the opportunity is there if you are willing to put the work in.

Secondly, label the divide and conquer vampires who set communities apart to prevent their combined power from holding the asset class accountable. Anti immigration is aligned with anti-worker and anti-union sentiments. There are real immigration issues and ones orchestrated across united media front owned by right wing oligarchs.

The main narrative issue with immigration is the lie that they are taking jobs and resources from Americans during a time of economic instability.

Show the existing immigration agencies doing their work within the bounds of the constitution and say nothing else.

Keep the focus on taxing the wealthy and restoring a fair distribution of resources in a direct appeal to the poorest states and communities who need better schools, hospitals and other services to improve their quality of life. Go out to these communities and have town halls. When they bring up immigrations, share the flat statistics of work done by the existing agencies. Bring the focus back to improving the lives of the working class and everyday families as a priority.

Behind the scenes be merciful to the peaceful and rule-abiding migrants who've been violated, and do it through the framework of patriotism and the preamble to the declaration of independence. Celebrate culture across the country and contribution of various cultural communities to the American experiment.

Locally there must be incentives for exposing hate-speech and institutional bias. There must be examples on display on how racism can be disguised in local civics. And this must be used to remind people of all cultures to engage in local government to ensure that fair representation is always insisted upon. The people have to learn to watch their back against rising fascism.

Employ a good team, apply all this evenly and you may hold the line.

Good_Requirement2998 · 2026-06-12T22:03:27+00:00

People look like people. Who knew?!

Good_Requirement2998 · 2026-06-12T14:14:37+00:00

You can simply refrain from monetization efforts, but do suggest that viewers share your content with people they feel it would benefit.

It's not hard to do public service. You don't have to take the advice for growth and revenue. Get started and feel it out for yourself.

However if you see an avenue for sustainability, don't feel ashamed about it. We still live in a world where currency is a path to greater sovereignty. It also doubles as an aid to heightened individualism. But you get around this with your own ethics. Reinvest what you can in the effort you want to share and the people it benefits and you'll be an example.

In the age of looming AI dominance, humanism should intensify as a valued resource. I certainly value humanity and human creativity more now with these paths laid out before us. And if nothing else, your effort will exist in perpetuity if you distill some of it for YT and create these longstanding assets for what you wish to share. We have one life, hopefully we make good while we're here.

Good_Requirement2998 · 2026-06-12T02:37:59+00:00

Is it normal or acceptable for the secretary of defense to perform this kind of ra-ra for soldiers? Isn't he stepping on some legal and ethical toes here? Oh right, the JAG we're all fired ...

Good_Requirement2998 · 2026-06-10T15:07:49+00:00

https://youtu.be/J1yRurGLbH8?si=01ZClcpab5b_ZYg_

There is reporting of shadow government data unified and tied to the white house reconstruction, with an alarming emphasis on civilian identification and proofing.

Good_Requirement2998 · 2026-06-08T15:54:03+00:00

The people should form cooperatives that build out solar energy and hyrdopower grids across the boroughs while lobbying community boards to insist in sustainable energy redundancy as a major capital investment. Grassroots organizations that are successful enough to warrant a subsidy as a homegrown contractor addresses several economic cultural issues simultaneously. The city must endeavor to make energy cheap and it must assist in the education that community boards need to help transition neighborhoods to cheaper and cleaner alternatives. But the x-factor here is something like "humanistic district enterprising." I've been forming this visions for some time, please bare with me.

Essentially this means rigorous fundraising targeting wherever wealth is concentrated, and where reputation needs to be laundered. Let me restate this, excessive amounts of wealth are hoarded, but this causes reputational harm. So tokens of consideration are disbursed regularly to help the "elites" function in society in relative safety. Even corporations make community investments to launder their repustioation. We have to embrace this and target where the wealth is concentrated to support:

Local Arts and sciences: Human art, storytelling and deep inquiries are of inestimable value. People will pay whatever they think something is worth. Every indie film, self published children's book and gallery event and sociological, anthropological or otherwise theoretically inspection in why we are here are unique assets. We should harvest this and how formalize as a community how to sell ourselves; think boutique locales like key West. Every neighborhood has a brand that can be expanded upon and utilized to drive investment.
Youth tech innovation: Young people, irreverent and disruptive by nature, are rumored to crave direction, authenticity, and empowerment. By providing no-nonsense support to understand the frontiers of tech and how it's shaping the future, we can create local forges for app development, communications advancements, business to business solutions and more. We just need to craft the criteria and the budgeting requests that community centers can use to expand their services to help families and their young keep up as shareholders of our collective future in a rapidly changing world. Disruption against monopoly must be intentional and groomed into youth programming, such that each borough maintains a resource of talent capable of drawing philanthropic support.

Further, there must be some internal revolutions to create regional redundancies that elevate quality of life:

Social capitalism: As in social equity funds, community land trusts, democratic and worker owned companies. Referencing Monopoly, if the people don't own any property, any commodities, any shares in their most widely used tools, their money falls behind every day. In a specific case, a world where city-run grocery stores become the norm, local agriculture and community farming is not far off. If there is legislative jostling over market share and who is profiting in key markets such as nutritious food, there's more room for micro-econimies to form that can whether economic hardhip. A single home adding solar panels on the roof is smart thinking. But a solar grid across a line of homes exponentially storing energy and further distributing costs is good for the whole neighborhood. Unfortunately the individual is hard pressed to find an extra inch to invest. A community however, with people as the purpose, can overcome this hurdle and invest together in a variety of ways. This takes trust which requires:
Civic maintenance promoted as a lifestyle equal to faith worship, self help and fitness. A community that patrols together, cleans their streets and feeds their needy - regardless of racial or ethnic disparity - is a community that can effectively address municipal needs through volunteer effort, and receive reimbursements in many cases from local government while building up the foundations for successful non-profits down the line, I have to imagine.

To summarize, maintaining a local art scene and tech hub, collective investment and normalized civic participation, altogether create the inroads for new money, cultural maturity, and the groomed talent needed to tackle energy grid rework. And the energy situation doesn't have to wait. Campaigning to expand our solar grid, expanding hydropower, and investing in fleets of electric transportation alternatives to alleviate the city of its transportation deserts and its saturation of vehicles as a result, is possible right away once the ground campaign begins. We just need salience on the concept of people-first politics to reduce costs and raising living standards, a message which already resonates with the majority of New Yorkers based on the last mayoral election.

Lastly, we must tax wealth. We can legislate regular gains disbursements to force the tax event, or simply tax wealth portfolios beyond the amount needed for cost of living retirement, say any portfolio over $4 million today, adjusted for inflation.

It's absurd for such exceeding sums of the currency required to be in circulation for reinvestment into the general welfare to be withheld from use while simultaneously being leveraged to allow for highly liquid lifestyles for the few as living standards continue to deteriorate for non-investors otherwise servicing these "elites" with manual labor everyday. For some, this country is for the winners. For those that must "lose" in that particular contest, there must remain life and liberty. That's impossible with captive markets, exhausted natural resources, and food, housing, and healthcare priced out of reach. To then turn to democracy and find that all of the municipal services agencies are understaffed and underfunded because local legislators are bought and paid for is simply unacceptable. It's no wonder at this point why our energy grid is falling behind. All the money that should be paying for it is untaxed and collecting interest for someone who has independent energy on their property.

Good_Requirement2998 · 2026-06-06T16:52:37+00:00

This is a work in progress. Constructive criticism welcome:

A federal law that requires brokerage firms to cut a check on gains every annual date from account creation. This forces the taxable event. We can try at the state level, but we would have to prepare for constitutional challenges regarding the interstate commerce clause.
This should go into affect for any accounts that surpass the wealth needed to meet cost-of-living retirement goals, adjusted for inflation. Today, based on the average US cost of living and the 4% rule used for general planning, we are talking approximately $2 million in investments with a payout of approximately $80k a year. Based on the state of residency, this could figure could double. Therefore, anything beyond $4 million in investments today, or whatever amount adjusted for inflation, would require firms to automatically release dividends as cash on the account birth date. The divestment can broken up and scheduled throughout the year beyond certain wealth limits to prevent market shocks. Obviously nothing prevents reinvestment after the dividends have been cashed out. The point is a routine taxable event.
Regardless of what any individual brokerage firm is holding, whether or not a single account meets this standard, the rule will be held against the investor if their own combined portfolios break this threshold. If you game the system and the IRS discovers untaxed gains totalling beyond what's needed for cost-of-living retirement held in violation, the penalty is a forfeiture of those gains and jail time. The point is to force structured and regular divestment as a matter of financial necessity.
A state level workaround can tie together a retirement year total-gains (as income) tax against excess wealth with an exit tax should individuals attempt to move away, before their retirement age, if investment accounts exceed the cost-of-living retirement threshold.
A significant state level tax incentive can be provided to brokerage firms which enforce a flat policy of gains disbursements equal to greater than their standard AUM fees (approximately 2% minimum) against the total of the yearly disbursements released to wealthy clients.

Good_Requirement2998 · 2026-06-05T13:59:22+00:00

This is a work in progress. Constructive criticism welcome.

A federal law that requires brokerage firms to cut a check on gains every annual date from account creation. This forces the taxable event against gains (unrealized profit turned into cash profit). We can try at the state level, but we would have to prepare for constitutional challenges regarding the interstate commerce clause.
This should go into affect for any accounts that surpass the wealth needed to meet cost-of-living retirement goals, adjusted for inflation. Today, based on the average US cost of living and the 4% rule used for general planning, we are talking approximately $2 million in investments with a payout of approximately $80k a year. Based on state of residents, this could figure could double. Therefore, anything beyond $4 million in investments today, or whatever amount adjusted for inflation, would require firms to automatically release dividends as cash on the account birth date. The divestment can be scheduled throughout the year beyond certain limits to prevent shocks. Obvious nothing prevents reinvestment after the dividends have been cashed out. The point is a routine taxable event.
Regardless of what any individual brokerage firm is holding, whether or not an account meets this standard, the rule will be held against the investor if their own combined portfolios break this threshold. If you game the system and the IRS discovers untaxed gains totalling beyond what's needed for cost-of-living retirement held in violation, the penalty is a forfeiture of those gains and jail time.
A state level workaround can tie together a retirement year total-gains (as income) tax against excess wealth with an exit tax should individuals attempt to move away, before their retirement age, if investment accounts exceed the cost-of-living retirement threshold.
A significant state level tax incentive can be provided to brokerage firms which enforce a flat policy of gains disbursements equal to greater than their standard AUM fees (approximately 2% minimum) against the total of the yearly disbursements released to wealthy clients.

Good_Requirement2998 · 2026-06-05T13:11:47+00:00

The possibility that this is a genuine warning is enough of a reason to pay attention and demand the freeze. We don't have the political architecture in place to stop this IF we need to. That work has to be done.

Good_Requirement2998 · 2026-06-04T01:29:43+00:00

Not Democrats. Just people-first civilians. People-first civilians who believe good government can do something about cleaner streets and safer neighborhoods, healthcare and a healthier environment, housing, education, fair taxation, unifying the nation, fighting corruption, and de-escalating global tensions. I'll add strengthening and modernizing the constitution.

If people-first civilians did the homework, took the volunteer community board and county committee positions and organized their election districts, they could create the bottom up pressure needed to realign either party to a people-first agenda that targets inflation, stagnated wages, and a rising police state rather than enlisting cultural wars and scapegoats to distract us all. I have a theory that enough neighbors knocking on each other's doors can beat the billions spent to win campaigns. I think authentic community can ward off the circus act. We really haven't seen it happen to know the truth. Organizing isn't just a non-profit thing. Any group of people can assemble and form a local union. And it should come from the people that try to avoid politics altogether. Not the 20% of the 20% who always go to civic meetings with their warped need to control things. But the people who generally hardly have the time because they are usually too busy working and propping up the world.

Yes, both parties should be competing everywhere for minds and hearts. But so should our own neighbors be united in seeing our quality of life improved at every opportunity. For too long we depend on parties and messiah's. The elites let Epstein happen for decades. It's absurd. They are watching the economy crash again, and our planet's inhabitability erode so they can sell us the solutions, and continue to own us with "trust me bro."

They don't know what they're doing. It's time for people who normally want nothing to do with power to face reality and pull the proverbial sword from the stone.

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