Also, I guess Portugal is making it easier for Brazilians to stay there(I have to check this to be sure)

Sorry, I don't know where you're from, I have no context for what you said.

I'm from Brazil

Brazilians can enter EU for tourism without a visa, right?

Brazil is easily the most corrupt south American nation

Pretty much

Not the most, Bolívia might be the worse

Or Venezuela too

Brazil has a lot of potential

Yeah

I remember some diplomatic shit when Spain decided to not let Brazilians in without visas.

It could become a regional powerhouse

Oh, I've seen it

They kept people at the airport for a week or two

Brazil is a powerhouse in South America, but with the current crisis and the mismanagement of decades, it's getting really bad

How come they are so impotent?

Brazil has like the entire government being investigated for organized crime or something.

For corruption

Impotent about what?

With their governing

People don't give a shit

It's pretty much this

Social programs to keep electorate under control. That was what the president was bragging about at the UN.

At least they didn't pull the "let me starve the population to death" like Zimbabwe.

That's the thing. It's not to keep but at the same time it is.

It's welfare, but they use it to keep poor people under control and voting them

At the same time the left goes "omg, this is so good because people left poverty and bla bla bla"

On the other hand, their president could have been nominated as goodwill ambassador if he did. <:think_hitlerdidnothingwrong:378717099952177162>

Learn from your neighbors: https://www.economist.com/news/americas/21692915-government-rebuilding-its-discredited-statistics-institute-augean-stable

Just lie about your economic problems.

You don't need to help the poor if you don't believe they exist.

It will catch up with them either way

It did

It was one the of things that blew up when macri assumed

Irá funny, because it blew up on his government, so the opposition blamed him for it for the stuff Cristina did

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXHXVnqz5VA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdgjDRqiFRM

Only the internet can turn shit into gold

Watched the video @DanConway

Gotta say I disagree on many points

thats not a bad thing

he makes some pretty good videos back when he did alot

He forgot why the social programes were made in the first place

Mainly to avoid an uprising

fair enough

they need to at least be consolidated into one program (in the US that is)

And charities waste an enormous amount of money

not really

Just look at the red cross

compared to how social systems work

they have to pay people

just like the government does

If you donate donate it to your local church or something like that

Also his stance on the separation of church of state wories me

dont you guys pay a church tax though?

I think the main point of his ideas are still Liberty>security

Yes we pay

in a way that gives them a say in your gov?

Not much

Mostly holidays

We have to close the stores

And we have religious education aviable but it isnt mandatory

but it is still some say

the problem i have with Sep of Church and State in the US is how they got that specific verbage

And you still have the occasional judge/politician that bases some absolutely retarded decision on some backwards and literal interpretation of the bible.

And then he goes on a rant how UK shouldnt have alowwed muslims in

Making no differentiation beween muslim and islamist

I am not from UK so its kinda hard for me to judge that

They have had alot more problems in that area than the US

Yes because they alowed way too many people in a short time ad created paralel societies

I think it has more to deal with barriers to entry through welfare

if welfare pays more than a low paying job there is a problem

The best path to assimilation is work

And it shoudnt but that is not an argument for its abolishment

no but it is an example of how groups will not assimilate in large numbers

And something I noticed is in the idea of free trade

Nobody talks about reciprocity

how so?

Should we do free trade with china?

We allow them to buy land, companies etc.

They dont return the favour

It depends

I say we should prioritise trading If the laws are the same

you have to make markets in your own country competitve first through deregulation before you can have free trade

If you trade with protectionists without concetions you look like a sucker

Chinese gov is reportedly cracking down on overseas investment at the moment, funnily enough

not suprising

Has anyone tried just sucking more dicks? "Drained balls are good for all" my uncle used to say

Also

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/brilliantly-quietly-us-companies-buying-chinese-peter-fuhrman

It irked me for a while. Just wanted to get the idea out there

Would be a much friendlier world

The US acquirers do their utmost to stay out of the headlines. They prefer to shop quietly, without competitors finding out. This does a lot to keep prices down and give these US buyers maximum negotiating leverage. A lot of these US acquisitions in China stay secret long after they close.

Contrast this style with that of Chinese investors in the US. Most end up bidding against one another for the same assets. *Overpaying has become a hallmark of Chinese purchases in the US*.

China still can confiscate those properties

So can other countries 🤷

It's something half the politicians in this country run on

"Der Chinese are stealing our land! we gotta take it BACK!"

Libertarianism is as utopian as socialism

Not to hold up as an Ideal

I think the utopia comes when you go into Anarchy

"Ancap" And "AnCoM"