Since everyone is interested in ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ tax law right now, here's one of the gems I love.

The IRS has a section that tells people which form they need to fill out for income from illegal activities, like illegal drug dealing.

Even drug dealers pay their taxes. ๐Ÿ˜‚

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Ransom paid to pirates, and mob extortion is also a tax deductible in the US, up to a certain point.

The Gettys have a notable story in this case, refusing to pay anything more than the maximum amount that could be deducted.

Canadian tax anecdote. I knew an auditor for the CRA, who said if you're nice during audit, they try to help as much as they can.

He then told a story about auditing a drag queen that nearly gave him a heart attack, when he found out they didn't deduct their stage costumes. ๐Ÿ˜‚

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Oct 23
Pstโ€ฆ while the normies are sleepingโ€”letโ€™s talk about serial killers.

Specifically, the 70s boom & bust. Most experts attribute the disappearance of serial killers to improved social conditions.

What if the only thing that disappeared is the data? This gets wild.

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2/ first rule of data literacy: what are we looking at?

This chart shows ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ data from the Radford/FGCU, which defines a serial killer as someone who murders 2 or more in separate instances.

That definition broadens the labelโ€”even reclassifying infamous murderers like Ed Gein.
3/ Experts often attribute the rise to:
- Mobility: New highways let killers flee; victims were farther from home & community

- Post-war trauma: Returning vets passed trauma to their kids

- Anonymity: As people moved further from home, they knew fewer neighbors
Read 16 tweets
Oct 9
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ: Canada Post is losing money.

The left thinks thatโ€™s okay. The right thinks it now needs to be sold off.

The elites & their politicians? They donโ€™t want you to realize that Canada Postโ€™s losses were manufactured so they could loot a public asset.

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2/ InnovaPost was Canada Postโ€™s in house IT provider, handling key infrastructure like email and its shipping platform.

Brilliant. This allows internal transfer for the lowest cost, since any profits are returned.

It was sold to Deloitte in 2024. Obvs they must be suckers.
3/ Canada Post built SCI, a third-party logistics company (3LP) w/ synergistic operations. It was one of ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆโ€™s largest 3PLs, essential ecommerce infrastructure.

โ€œSCI has been a strong performer for the Canada Post Group of Companies over the years,โ€ Canada Postโ€™s CEO in 2024.
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Jul 3
Have you noticed smart people are suddenly irrationalโ€”ignoring facts & embracing narrative?

Itโ€™s not your imaginationโ€”itโ€™s a biological phenomenon exploited by leaders & weโ€™re all vulnerable to it.

Letโ€™s talk about amygdala flooding & neurobiological hijacking.

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2/ Bonhoeffer, a Lutheran pastor executed for trying to kill Hitler, famously touched on this in his theory of stupidity.

Stumped by the normal people he knew suddenly becoming Nazis, he concluded theyโ€™re not evilโ€”theyโ€™re stupid.

Stupidity is way worse than you think.
3/ to him , stupidity is surrendering oneโ€™s ability to think, making one incapable of self-reflection or moral judgment.

Itโ€™s not greed. People are so stressed theyโ€™re outsourcing thinking.

This is why facts have no impactโ€”thereโ€™s no consideration.
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Apr 23
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆโ€™s wild these days.
- Money laundering capital of the world
- the global fentanyl โ€œcommand & control centerโ€
- home to transnational organized crime heads
- at least 1 in 7,800 residents are members of organized crimes.

How did this happen so fast?

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2/ first of all, most folks in ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ donโ€™t realize how bad things are yet, theyโ€™re just dealing with the consequences.

Soaring housing costs. Rising car thefts. Unaffordable housing, Overdoses in your hood. Violence in your streets.

All related.
3/ ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆโ€™s home prices soared in the mid-2010s due to laundering.

Fentanyl proceeds were washed in casinos, then layered w/housing. Itโ€™s now called the Vancouver model.

Home prices surged since comps were skewed, & launderers WANT to pay more.

Dive into this later.
Read 11 tweets
Apr 22
Funny story. About a year ago I was crunching ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆโ€™s immigration data & found a really neat issue.

โ€ฆ over 1 in 6 of ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆโ€™s claimed immigrants donโ€™t actually exist in the country.

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2/ I was looking at immigrant cohorts from the 1980s & forward, & noticed an interesting pattern: 1 in 7 would disappear from taxfiler data.

They drop out faster in recent data, but still consistent. In finance a predictable pattern usually means 1 of 2 things: fraud or error.
3/ so I contact Stat Can & inquire to make sure I understood the data correctly. I did.

About a month later, Stat Can conducts a study & concludes *drumroll* 1 in 6 immigrants probably left the countryโ€ฆ since 1980.

๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ isnโ€™t sure because it doesnโ€™t track departures.
Read 11 tweets
Apr 13
๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ just busted 3 fentanyl labs in 2 days.

All well equipped, industrial scale facilities within a short-drive of each other in BC. All to produce the fentanyl ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ totally doesnโ€™t have.

Tragically Iโ€™m not your fentanyl czar, but hereโ€™s what Iโ€™d notice if I were. ๐Ÿ˜‰

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2/ this is a fun photo. Nothing brown is used to synth fentanyl. Precursors are clear or white.

But aniline, an essential manufacturing chem, is light brown & darkens as it oxidizes.

Only problem is aniline isnโ€™t used in fentanyl production. wtf, eh? Image
3/ However, aniline is used to make fentanyl precursors. RCMP said 2 of 3 labs in the fentanyl bust were manufacturing fentanyl.

What was the 3rd? Iโ€™m not a fishing license expert like ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆโ€™s newly appointed fentanyl czar, but it sure looks like a precursor lab.
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