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      3 days ago

      20% is a pretty charitable estimate if you’ve been paying attention to the news for the past decade

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          3 days ago

          That’s just a (concerningly large) percentage of the nutjobs

          There are other kinds too that focus their rage at other marginalised groups

          Then you get the conspiracy groups, of anti vaccination people (we have official stats showing there were a couple of percent of hard-line nevers during COVID), the ones that burn down radio masts because of bill gates 5g microchips, those lizard-people guys etc.

          Perhaps irredeemable is harsh on a few of these, but most don’t get to that point because something or someone pulls them out. For whatever reason it doesn’t happen to a percentage of people.

          It all adds up to a group of people who provide a lot of noise at the bottom end of polling.