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jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:
Canada and Australia and now the new Pope give me tempered, pragmatic hope that 2025 will not be the absolute shitshow it could be, globally politically speaking. The US still has to go through its nonsense, to be clear, and we did that to ourselves. But it's clear other countries and institutions are correctly seeing us as a cautionary tale and shifting courses. Yes, India/Pakistan, Israel/Gaza, Russia/Ukraine (to name but three current fires). But let's note the upsides when they happen.