Kevyn Nightingale 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇮🇱

Canada-US tax expert. Amateur polemicist. The least partisan partisan you will ever know. I attempt to be a realist. All views my own. RTs are not endorsements.

[Kevyn Nightingale 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 @ustaxcanada]

@mileslunn But Islam does. Mainstream Islam.

[Kevyn Nightingale 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 @ustaxcanada]

@Owennfa Hopefully your son is learning skills that will allow him to earn more money in the future. Minimum wage is not meant to be a living wage. It's a starting point.

[Kevyn Nightingale 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 @ustaxcanada]

@mileslunn @KirkMiller47849 If the old text guided a large number of people's actions today, I'd call that out, too. But Christianity and Judaism have reinterpreted the text to tolerate disbelief. Not Islam.

[Kevyn Nightingale 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 @ustaxcanada]

@mileslunn * analogize

[Kevyn Nightingale 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 @ustaxcanada]

@mileslunn Do you really need me to cite the Quran and Hadith? The laws of Muslim countries which give force to these rules? The practices of Muslim groups?

Don't try to analogies a few crazy pastors with no political power with tens of millions of adherents.

[Kevyn Nightingale 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 @ustaxcanada]

@Irwin_2012 Hate speech is free speech. The whole point of freedom of expression is to allow people to say offensive things. Some of those things change people's minds. Racial equality was offensive at a time. You don't need a law allowing people to say what everyone thinks is nice.

[Kevyn Nightingale 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 @ustaxcanada]

@mileslunn It is important to note the difference between Islam and most Muslims. Most Muslims are not strictly observant, the same way many Jews eat bacon. But a large number support tenets we regard as evil, and many provide material support for evil acts.

[Kevyn Nightingale 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 @ustaxcanada]

@mileslunn Islam is different than almost all other religions as it claims universality over all people and admits to no separation between mosque and state. In dogma, there is only limited tolerance for Christians and Jews - dhimmi status. Worse for "idolaters" like Hindus.

[Kevyn Nightingale 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 @ustaxcanada]

@mileslunn @KirkMiller47849 There's a difference between Muslim ideas and most Muslim people. Criticizing bad ideas is perfectly legitimate.

[Kevyn Nightingale 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 @ustaxcanada]

@mileslunn When Islam goes through a Renaissance and admits to separation of mosque and state, we can talk.

[Kevyn Nightingale 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 @ustaxcanada]

@mileslunn Mainstream Islam advocates for the killing of apostates, adulterers and homosexuals, among others. It treats women as second class. I could go on. These are values. They are not compatible with Canadian values. Carney is pandering for votes. Day properly calls him out.

[Kevyn Nightingale 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 @ustaxcanada]

@mileslunn This is Canada's trajectory.

https://t.co/p3vBiw8IFz

[Kevyn Nightingale 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 @ustaxcanada]

@wealthmoose 2. The general rule should be that if a product is legal to sell in Canada, it should be able to be imported from the US without duty or quota.

This would hold even if the US subsidized its production. We care about consumers, not producers.

[Kevyn Nightingale 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 @ustaxcanada]

@wealthmoose True free trade would work to the benefit of both countries. Let's just get rid of distortions like food marketing boards, preferential stumpage, restrictive procurement rules, etc. We can't claim to be pure as the driven snow..../2

[Kevyn Nightingale 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 @ustaxcanada]

@mileslunn @LMartinOtt That's the Argentina scenario.

[Pierre Poilievre @PierrePoilievre]

They fired 17 bullets into his boxing gym.

But this undefeated pro boxer won’t stop fighting the terrorists.

Kick IRGC out. Ban Kata’ib Hezbollah. Put Canada First: https://t.co/sXxmuTBBrd

[Kevyn Nightingale 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 @ustaxcanada]

@mileslunn @LMartinOtt Until the tax base is hollowed out. Then they'll care.

[Kevyn Nightingale 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 @ustaxcanada]

@mileslunn @LMartinOtt It had great utility to the millions of people in the GTA, but there's a by-election at stake.

[Captain Allen @CptAllenHistory]

The Holocaust is singular. Nothing in history equals it.

A modern, industrialized European state decided that every single Jew on earth (man, woman, infant, elderly, disabled, convert, atheist, even war heroes) must be hunted down and murdered for the sole crime of existing.

Not for land.
Not for resources.
Not for political control.
Not as a byproduct of war.

The annihilation of the Jews was the point.

Even while the Germans were being crushed on the Eastern Front and the Allies pushed in from the West, the Nazis kept diverting trains, fuel, manpower, and industrial capacity away from the battlefield just to keep the gas chambers running.

Mere traces of Jewish ancestry were enough for a death sentence. Conversion didn't save you. Assimilation didn't save you. Intermarriage or loyalty to Germany didn't save you. Jewish blood itself was treated as a permanent, irreversible stain.

This extermination of Europe’s Jews was planned and carried out by university professors, engineers, architects, chemists, and bureaucrats. Ordinary, educated citizens of one of the most advanced societies on earth. They clocked in, murdered with industrial efficiency all day, then went home to listen to Beethoven and read Goethe.

No other atrocity combined all of these elements at once: (1) total biological targeting of an entire people with no exemptions; (2) industrial-scale factory killing; (3) continent-wide reach; and (4) a sophisticated modern state treating murder of a people as a war aim equal to military victory.

The crime was so unprecedented that Raphael Lemkin had to invent a new word for it: genocide.

That word has since been stretched, emptied, and turned into a political weapon against the very people who actually experienced it.

The Holocaust stands alone.

[Kevyn Nightingale 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 @ustaxcanada]

@mileslunn @LMartinOtt He's easily mistaken for a pragmatist. He is like many politicians; he just wants to be elected. Look what happened with the Toronto Island Airport this week.