>What you do is send people out there with an extreme and radical message, such as “get rid of the police completely,” and then force people to become accustomed to the fact that there are people who believe this should happen. Once people understand that there are people who believe this should happen, the center moves in that direction. [...] >I personally engaged in this behavior for a long time on this website. In fact, it was the entire purpose of this website when it was founded. I said: “I will take the most extreme right-wing position on every issue, and that will change the political climate.” >In 2020, I decided that I had to take a slightly softer tone, given that there just weren’t any adults in the room on the coronavirus issue, and I needed to put that message out there. Furthermore, I had decided that there was less of a need for the extreme rhetoric. Most importantly, I was no longer able to penetrate the mainstream, due to the extreme censorship, which made the goal of desensitizing impossible.