Python 3.6 is officially dead: I propose we drop compatibility for 3.6. This would allow us to lower CI runtime and let us use stuff that 3.7+ only supports, such as FASTCALL (speaking of C API).

You can get some of this info from the text that pops up in the console when you run a pygame program.

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