🧩 BND Motif Index · M1083
Chickenhawk
Someone is said to cheer a war loudest while dodging the fighting himself and leaving others to die in it: Cheney's five deferments, the ultra-Orthodox exempt from the draft for the wars they back.
🎭 Archetypes🗂️ War motifs🗂️ Hypocrisy
- 1claim filed under it
- 1left show it came up on
⚠️ A story people tell, not a claim that it's true.
A motif is the shape of a story as its tellers tell it, named the way a folklorist names a tale type, so the same story told about other people, by the other side or in another year lands in the same place. Some of the claims below are true, many are false. Arguing against a story is often a story of its own, its answer (Voter fraud is answered by Voter suppression, Lawfare by No one is above the law), and we file it there; where no answer has a motif yet, the arguments against a story sit with its tellings.
🪜 Its family
what it rests on, what rests on it, and the motifs that answer it
🪜 rests on 🧩 Some of you may die
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up, by the show's lean
🫏 left 1
⚖️ center 0
🦗 none of our center shows, so far
🐘 right 0
🦗 none of our right shows, so far
"Came up on" means one of its claims was heard on the show: told, reported or argued against. We don't yet mark which. Show leans are our own grouping of the shows we transcribe.
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, newest first, in our words, with where each was heard
- 2026-10-23 “Deepening divisions in Israel are being caused by the exemption of ultra-Orthodox citizens from military service.”
🎙️ The Young Turks (podcast)
M1083 · first seen 2026-10-24 · what this is · how the index works