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Former president Donald Trump claims US presidential election as count continues (www.abc.net.au)

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In short:

Donald Trump has claimed victory in the US presidential election, saying his political movement is the greatest the world has ever seen.

The Republican candidate swamped his Democratic rival Kamala Harris in critical swing states.

What's next?

The Republicans were on track to win both chambers of congress, too, paving the way for Trump's agenda to be enacted in full.

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[–] muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee -1 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

Why u such an advocate for em? Its clearly not about minimising human suffering else u would be concerned with any of the multitude of numerically more harmfull things.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 5 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

So first: People can be concerned about more than one thing at once. I am concerned about climate change, the war in Ukraine, the genocide in Sudan, the worldwide slide into fascism, etc etc, but nobody here needs to hear about these things, so what's left is Palestine as a reasonably divisive topic where real conversations can be had.

Second: I'm Arab. It's the same reason why Westerners tend to care about Ukraine more than Gaza.

[–] muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee -1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

U forget about tuberculosis or do those 1.8million people per year not matter? Id argue its the single area where the most progress can be made

[–] guismo@aussie.zone 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

I'm not arab, but as he said, you can worry about more than one thing. But I think the biggest difference with your tuberculosis example is: One is a problem due to lack of action, the other a problem due to direct action. You have to be competent to do something about one, while the other, just by not doing anything (by not giving them loads of money and weapons) they would already solve the problem.

So one problem requires effort to be solved, the other, they are putting effort to create the problem and it would be as easy as just not doing it. In theory pressuring them in just not doing something should be easier than doing other work.

Put in a different view, what would be your worse behaviour?

-A person you know died of turberculosis and you didn't take them to the hospital

-A person you know died because you shoot them, or you gave someone a gun and money and told them they could shoot them?

Which action would get more people against you?