They have that in almost every country

In America, it’s the standard deduction. In the UK, it’s the personal allowance IIRC

Yeah

It’s $12K single / $24k married filing jointly

Americans often don’t realise how high their wage levels are compared to the rest of the developed world

Aussies are close but not quite to US levels

Finland U3 is 6.8%

Yikes

Unemployment rate

No we should not

Why would you need to learn a second language when your native language is the lingua franca? What a massive waste of human capital

Gender studies isn't mandatory

Depends on the school district

But it's useless for the vast majority of Americans

lol at secondary school students learning Mandarin

Secondary was fun for me but I suppose it depends on your area

Columbus was a great man

I literally would not exist without him so big props

Sociopolitical implications of the 2007-11 television series Back at the Barnyard in Uruguay

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knKaF9mQ01U

I think so

Bolsonaro's 46% showing in Round 1 was really strong

Yep

I think the final result will be 54-46

No one in Brazil reads Vice lol

He's a standard PT candidate

His VP candidate is a commie though

Either way, they both oppose reform

So we have to make sure Bolsonaro wins

Yep

PT got slammed in Congressional and state elections too

The right is rising

You shouldn't wish that

CA will get way more electoral votes if that happens

Honestly

12 isn’t a bad age

You just need a good amount of gate keeping, which WPATH standards certainly aren’t doing

@gandhididpompeii https://youtu.be/bdUC8nRVyYY

Canada is going to face massive social problems in the coming decades

The best case scenario is to rally everyone around something like Fordism but that seems unlikely

Canada isn’t as pluralistic as the US so it can’t handle the levels of immigration that we easily can

I am a liberal

Centre-left liberal here

I’m fine right where I am

You need them on your side lol

Outflank the left and then move the Overton window right

This isn’t hard

You can’t win in the developed world by looking like intolerant assholes

If they don’t start growing their coalition, they’re going to have massive problems going forward

Yes

How? Its electoral base is shrinking as a share of the population

Not really

The right in many countries just alienated them

Well they’re there and soon you won’t be able to win elections without them

Bolsonaro has figured this out but the right in the West can’t seem to

He’s very right-wing by Brazilian political standards

You have to move the conversation to the right gradually

You cannot win everything in one day

He was surging in the polls before the attempt

Look at Doug Ford too

Pan-ethnic appeal, which you have to have to win Ontario nowadays

They are

They’ll eventually start to pivot to appeal to the newcomers

Probably by the late 2020s

Why?

We aren’t

What makes us not able to live in the same country?

“Core values” are malleable

Texas is the future of America

It is becoming the most dynamic regional economy on Earth

There are so many people who would vote GOP if it weren’t for their social policies

That’s why they’re getting blown out in the cities

They did not

Remember folks

If the GOP reached parity with Latinos, they’d never lose a national election

Better than losing

You literally can’t

If you keep getting blown out among all minority groups, winning gets more and more difficult as the country’s demographics change

You can’t

I’d like to know how you think you can pull that off

Yes

I don't think it makes much of a difference

It's even in my microwave

But I'd assume it'd be replaced by something else if it wasn't around

No

My microwave is Amazon Alexa-enabled

My oven is not