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The reaction to George Floyd in UK was quite strange, with "don't shoot" protests and "defund the police", when the UK police is not even armed and gets paid like half of their American counterparts.



That's not a bad one, although issues of police brutality and overfunding definitely aren't unique to the US


Police regularly having tanks and other epic equipment from war is definitely unique to democracies.


That's true, autocracies usually just deploy the military domestically!




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