from what I can see, it looks like, yes, there's the usual run of anti-vaxxers, there's neo-Nazis

as flag fetishists, there are, of course, the Q&ON people there, there's the hippies and

the conspiracy theorists and all the rest of it, and they're quite a sizable chunk of people.

But to be honest, quite a lot of them just look like the average sort of people that, you know, they just look ordinary people.

And when you see a protest movement that's gaining ground, this is kind of what it looks like.

I mean, they don't appear to have any big funding.

There's no centralized organization as far as I can see.

The placards are all or mostly homemade. So this is quite unlike,

for example, the anti-lockdown protests in the United States, which are rather like the Tea Party

and that they have a grassroots basis, but they're very heavily funded by dark money, by

Koch Brother funding, all that sort of thing. So this suggests

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