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Tunnels, not schools

A ruling faction is said to take the aid and money the world sends its people and pour it into weapons and war instead of homes and schools, so it digs down where it should build up and its people's misery is laid at its door.

πŸ“œ PlotsπŸ—‚οΈ War motifsπŸ—‚οΈ Money and power

⚠️ 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.

πŸŽ™οΈ Who it came up with

the shows we follow where its claims came up (0 left-leaning, 0 center, 2 right-leaning so far), colored by the show's lean; the bar is how many of its claims each one heard

  1. 🐘 PBD Podcast (podcast) 1 claim
  2. 🐘 Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words 1 claim

"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.

πŸ—£οΈ In so many words

the words that carry it

πŸ’¬ the tellers' own words: β€œHamas take all the money they receive from the global world and built down into terror tunnels” β€œthey do not build up”

🧢 Its claims

what's been told in this shape, in our words, by who told it: newest first in each; a claim's dots are the shows it came up on, in their lean's color (point at them for their names)

Told on the left 0

claims heard on left-leaning shows, and no right-leaning one

πŸ¦— No claim heard only on the left so far.

Told on the right 1

claims heard on right-leaning shows, and no left-leaning one

  • 2026-11-01 β€œHamas uses global funds to build terror tunnels instead of building up society.” 2

M1360 Β· first seen 2026-11-01 Β· what this is Β· how the index works