Well yeah one are peaceful protestors, the other is armed. Cops get scared when someone else can fight back on an even playing field. Even if that somebody is a horrible monster murdering children. They didn’t join the force to protect people they joined so people had to do what they say.

“To protect capital and serve the upper class.”

It was actually ruled they exist to protect property. So you aren’t far off from the truth. We live in backwards land. The changes were so imperceptible, that we didn’t even notice them replacing the sky with the ground.

Imperceptible to someone completely ignoring history and the world around them, sure!

The concept of state sponsored police in the US originated in slave hunting gangs. The US never changed since the beginning.

To your point though there is an incredible amount of brainwashing. Your average North Korean is less brainwashed than Americans, at least they know what other countries have.

Americans think they are the last beacon of civilization and the developed world is in ruins when it’s literally the other way around lmao.

I want to agree with you but you’re wrong about n koreans. They may know they’re government is suit and are unable to change it but I doubt they truly know all of what other countries have. They don’t even have access to the internet unless they’re the top 1 percent there. At most they have access to their intranet and state sponsored television content. They even censor jeans in their media.

www.snopes.com/…/north-korea-ban-skinny-jeans/

The amount of unconfirmed or secondhand propaganda we get out of north korea is pretty astounding, I wouldn’t at face believe, say, whatever a guardian article posts about them, for instance, and probably also not anything from radio free asia, or probably defectors with inconsistent stories that are funded by the south korean government, that sort of shit.

Did North Korea Ban Skinny Jeans? | Snopes.com

Mullets, dyed hair, and body piercings are also considered unacceptable.

Snopes
North Korea TV censors Alan Titchmarsh's trousers

The gardening presenter fell foul of the secretive state's strict rules because of his choice of attire.

BBC News

That’s fair enough, I did read recently on this site that they did blur jeans on a broadcast of a show. The site claims to be as unbiased as they can but I haven’t done deep research into them.

nknews.org/…/north-korean-tv-censors-blue-jeans-w…

North Korean TV censors blue jeans while airing British gardening show | NK News

North Korean state television censored a pair of blue jeans when airing a British gardening show on Monday, a move that appears to reflect the regime’s efforts to restrict popular Western fashion and culture. In the episode of the BBC TV series “Garden Secrets,” the British broadcaster Alan Titchmarsh kneels in a garden bed while […]

NK News - North Korea News
They have a content syndication agreement with the guardian, and I think they poorly cite their sources in most stories. I wouldn’t really have great confidence with their reporting.
You’re right about the police. I got a little off topic with the backwards land thing there and generalized everything because it seems every whereyour look now shit is fucked up.

Nah, this only a half truth. Europe is a fantastic place, free health care un most of the countries. But go to a poorer country like Mexico, and you’ll see people living in poorly constructed sheds.

When you see that kind of stuff, that’s when you realize how fucking rich and well off the U.S. actually is. The poorest of the poor in the U.S. (excluding homeless) are generally better off than the poor in other countries. Not discounting the struggles of the poor in the U.S. (I grew up dirt poor).

But the thing is, we had running water, toilets, and a place to wash our clothes. There are places that have none of that, and not even access to clean drinking water.

Does the U.S. police state blow ass, yes. But acting like we’re some backward ass country in the shitter is missing some perspective.

and to earn a lot of money + bragging rights

I may be being pedantic, but I wouldn’t call a 1 vs 376 situation an “even playing field”.

https://www.businessinsider.com/376-officers-were-at-uvalde-elementary-school-over-hour-report-2022-7?op=1

376 officers were at the Uvalde elementary school for over an hour: report

"It's a joke. They're a joke. They've got no business wearing a badge. None of them do," said the grandfather of Layla Salazer, one of the victims.

Insider
No you are absolutely right. Cops should have just stormed the room at that point. But they knew he had a gun and they valued their lives more. A cop’s wife died while he fucken waited.