Monitoring Biden and other Contemporary Events

That’s the point you start paying attention to what he’s actually doing?

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I hope they strike.

Oh?

CBS News wrote:

A rail strike would affect nearly every industry because so many businesses rely on railroads to deliver their raw materials and finished products. The railroads have estimated that a strike would cost the economy $2 billion a day and could force many manufacturers to shut down and lay off workers. Plus, commuter railroads and Amtrak would be disrupted because many of them rely on tracks owned by the freight railroads.

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Ad hom.

I’m not part of this story.

You’re avoiding the issue by trying to insinuate me into it.

The strategy will be to make Trump the sin-eater for the entire party, designating him as the GOP’s sole problem, and then rejecting him—and only him. The goal will be to scrub away the stain of having accommodated Trump while pretending that the Republican Party is no longer an extension of his warped and antidemocratic views. This will require an extraordinary suspension of disbelief and an expenditure of gigawatts of political energy on the pretense that the past seven years or so didn’t happen—or didn’t happen the way we remember them, or happened but don’t matter because Trump, having escaped Elba to contest the primaries, will finally be sent to St. Helena after his inevitable defeat.

This will be the new Republican line, and it is nonsense.

France is similar, right?

Labor unions have been vilified for so long in the US that public support is not guaranteed.

Which is why striking can be the only powerful tool workers have.

Ad hom literally means ‘about the person.’

Frank, you don’t understand the meaning of ad hom.

When you make the conversation ‘about the person’ you’re having the conversation with—instead of the issues addressed—it is an ad hominem fallacy.

Why don’t you tell me how NLRB materially improves the lives of workers.

The NLRB is an independent federal agency enforcing the National Labor Relations Act, which guarantees the right of most private sector employees to organize, to engage in group efforts to improve their wages and working conditions, to determine whether to have unions as their bargaining representative, to engage in collective bargaining, and to refrain from any of these activities. It acts to prevent and remedy unfair labor practices committed by private sector employers and unions.

Lash wrote:

Ad hom literally means ‘about the person.’

I don't know where and how long you studied Lati, but you are wrong.

Ad hom is an abbreviation of the Latin "argumentum ad hominem".
Literally it means "evidence [ or speech] to man", meaning as an overall term "speech against the person".

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Why don’t you tell me how NLRB materially improves the lives of workers.

Because the fact that Republican administrations have done all they could to render it useless should indicate that it has some effect.

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The NLRB is an independent federal agency enforcing the National Labor Relations Act, which guarantees the right of most private sector employees to organize, to engage in group efforts to improve their wages and working conditions, to determine whether to have unions as their bargaining representative, to engage in collective bargaining, and to refrain from any of these activities. It acts to prevent and remedy unfair labor practices committed by private sector employers and unions.

So, it had NO material effect. As I said.