🧩 BND Motif Index · M1927
The dinosaurs had no lobby
A dying industry is said to outlive its time only because it pays a lobby to keep it alive: left to itself it would go the way of the dinosaurs, so its survival is told as bought, not earned.
🕵️ Theories🗂️ Money and power🗂️ Big business
- 1claim filed under it
- 1claim retold online
⚠️ 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.
📰 In the news
the stories its claims were told about, the most told first (matched by our tools, so a link can be wrong)
- 📰 ExxonMobil signs preliminary agreement to explore oil opportunities in Venezuela 2026-11-10 to 2026-11-12
🗣️ In so many words
the words that carry it
💬 the tellers' own words: “The dinosaurs did not have a lobby, but fossil fuels do” “UN chief hits out at industry lobbying”
🧶 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)
Retold online 1
claims many people posted in their own words
- 2026-11-12 “Fossil fuels must go the way of the dinosaurs, but they won't go away on their own because they have a lobby.”
M1927 · first seen 2026-11-12 · what this is · how the index works