The Long Game Against Organized Labor

[peristaltor]

By now, everyone has heard about what is happening seemingly all at once in Wisconsin, Michigan and Ohio. Republican governors are trying to ram "emergency" legislation through their senates and houses that would strip the most robust union demographic, public employees, of their collective bargaining rights

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[sunfell]

You have a incredibly observant mind. I am glad to have made your acquaintance.

[peristaltor]

How observant I might be of course depends on whether or not I'm correct -- which remains to be seen -- but thank you!

[ankh_f_n_khonsu]

"Observation" has nothing to do with "correctness". That's a phenomenological error.

[peristaltor]

I was using "observant" in terms of the completeness of my observations. Theoretically, I figure, get enough accurate observations and one might get more and more correct conclusions.

But hey, you know me, all fast and loose with those darned definitions.

[ankh_f_n_khonsu]

What would it mean to have a "complete" observation?

[peristaltor]

I doubt one can have one, what with our limited cognition and sensory perceptions. I instead refer to getting as complete an observation as I possibly can. It's all relative.

I try as best as I can to treat these little rants like I treated nautical navigation: I gather as much information as I see important, then make a decision. If I hit the rocks or the sand, I goofed.

In other words, it's all about the fundamentals, and trying not to let them bite you in the fundament.