David Staples

Son of the North. 41 year veteran of the Edmonton Journal. Honored to write for the wisest and sanest readers in Canada.

[David Staples @DavidStaplesYEG]

If you give $1 billion to either Elon Musk or Mark Carney to invest, who will have more money in 10 years?

A degrowth political leader like Carney will squander it on Net Zero white elephants and DEI pandering.

He'll go broke.

@elonmusk will invent something amazing for us all.

He'll earn another trillion

[David Staples @DavidStaplesYEG]

#think

[C3 @C_3C_3]

The Left is pushing for identification to use the internet while pushing for no identification to vote.

Think about that.

[David Staples @DavidStaplesYEG]

The same posh dimwits who pushed the transing of children, free drugs for addicts, easy bail for criminals, climate alarm for anxious people, and racist and sexist hiring practices to somehow end racism and sexism now want social media bans.

"For the children" they say.

Not buying it.

[David Staples @dstaples]

Which Vegas coach will the Edmonton Oilers get? Tortorella, Cassidy or none at all?

https://t.co/ciCSR0tewp via @edmontonjournal

[David Staples @DavidStaplesYEG]

@culanicki @kushika_twt So could better economic policy

[David Staples @DavidStaplesYEG]

@CarsonJerema @nationalpost Non-workers of the world unite!

[David Staples @DavidStaplesYEG]

The same posh dimwits who pushed the transing of children, free drugs for addicts, easy bail for criminals, climate alarm for anxious people, and racist and sexist hiring practices to somehow end racism and sexism now want social media bans.

"For the children" they say.

Not buying it.

[David Staples @DavidStaplesYEG]

Which Vegas coach will the Edmonton Oilers get? Tortorella, Cassidy or none at all?

https://t.co/jXoyfwL4J6 via @edmontonjournal

[David Staples @DavidStaplesYEG]

Lots of noise around Edmonton's coaching search.
Lots of noise around Darnell Nurse on the block.

But it's awfully quiet around Edmonton keeping key veteran players.

https://t.co/zxwOBKBD5y via @edmontonjournal

[David Staples @DavidStaplesYEG]

@culanicki @kushika_twt You are projecting and trying to read his mind. You don’t know what he’s thinking.

[David Staples @DavidStaplesYEG]

Hmm

[PeterSweden @PeterSweden7]

Australia banned X for children but not BlueSky.

Britain is banning X for children but not BlueSky.

This proves one thing.

It's not about protecting children.

It's about censorship and controlling the narrative.

[David Staples @DavidStaplesYEG]

It's way too quiet around the Edmonton Oilers when it comes to new deals for internal talent.

What's up?

https://t.co/zxwOBKBD5y

[David Staples @DavidStaplesYEG]

@Sean_Speer What exactly has Carney repudiated?

Am not seeing much except for changing out a consumer carbon tax for an industrial carbon tax

[David Staples @DavidStaplesYEG]

@RichardDias_CFA @OneDadsFinance @ctvqp @AmandaLang We live on a nation of leftist imbeciles and complacent centrists.

It’s not making for any kind of easy recovery.

[Richard Dias @RichardDias_CFA]

Forgive me, Ms. Lang (@AmandaLang), but you are exactly wrong. The problems Canada faces ARE, in fact, about government mismanagement. Canada is in structural stagnation due to a chronic lack of productivity growth and a collapse in private investment, the result of government policy.

If 'trade frictions' and war in Iran disappeared tomorrow, they would not, in any way, solve the underlying cause of weak growth.

Also of note:
Youth unemployment is at a 35-year high adjusted for participation.

[wokeandwoofing @wokeandwoofing]

If I had Elon's money I would solve world hunger instantly.😡

Sent from a device purchased with with a sum of money that could have been used to feed an Ethiopian family for a year, but wasn't, because my generosity is purely hypothetical.

[David Staples @DavidStaplesYEG]

@KolotRabbi @_CryMiaRiver @TristinHopper @RosyBoa823 A layman’s best guess: Could it be that male adolescence brings on much stronger physiological prompts that they are physically attracted to the opposed sex? This would leave no doubt in the mind of a teenage boy about their sexuality.

[David Staples @DavidStaplesYEG]

Here is the best explanation why sensible people now oppose the medical transing of children.

[Mia Hughes @_CryMiaRiver]

I’m glad you asked.

First of all, let’s outline the hallmarks of a social contagion event:

- A rapid exponential explosion in numbers.
- The sudden appearance of an entirely new patient group
- Adolescent girls mostly affected.
- Clusters of friends presenting with the same symptom/behaviour

All of these are present in the epidemic of young people identifying as trans in the 2010s.

Now, the way society normally responds to such events is with an immediate search for the trigger event and the vectors for the contagion.

For example, with the bulimia contagion of the 80s, the trigger was found to be media coverage of the disorder.

With the outbreak of anorexia in Hong Kong in the 90s, it was the sensational media coverage of a school girl who had collapsed and died on a busy street.

With TikTok tics in the 2010s, a young Tourettes sufferer’s YouTube channel was swiftly identified.

There are endless examples.

In those instances, clinicians didn’t wait around for decades for someone to conduct a reliable study showing that the event was a social contagion. They recognised all the hallmarks and acted. In the case of bulimia though, not nearly fast enough.

In the case of the trans contagion, all researchers had to do was take a glance at the cultural messaging of the era. The inflection point coincides precisely with the dawn of the trans rights movement, with media celebration of trans-identified public figures, and trans influencers proliferating rapidly on social media.

And those early YouTube influencers actually documented the social contagion on camera for all to see with the How I Knew I Was Trans genre of video — with each young person describing encountering a trans-identified person online and immediately recognising themselves in it and adopting the identity. That’s the social contagion in action.

We don’t need studies to show it’s a social contagion. We just need to open our eyes and look at the evidence that is, and always has been, all around us.

[David Staples @DavidStaplesYEG]

@mysteriouskat Heaven forbid anyone but a champagne socialist from owning or controlling the media

[Still On The Road @StillOnTheRoad_]

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