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ClumsyPilot
18 days ago
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U.S. Ambassador says Canadians are consuming 'unhe...
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.
some_random
18 days ago
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That's not a bad one, although issues of police brutality and overfunding definitely aren't unique to the US
mensetmanusman
18 days ago
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Police regularly having tanks and other epic equipment from war is definitely unique to democracies.
some_random
18 days ago
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That's true, autocracies usually just deploy the military domestically!
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