π§© BND Motif Index Β· M501
Thoughts and prayers
A leader offers words of encouragement after a tragedy without any sense of the imperative of taking action to prevent future tragedies.
π PlotsποΈ Crisis responseποΈ AccountabilityποΈ Faith and the sacred
- 1claim filed under it
- 1fact-checker
β οΈ 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.
πͺ Its family
what it rests on, what rests on it, and the motifs that answer it
π goes with: π§© Crocodile tears π§© Deeply concerned π§© Do your part π§© Mass shooting
π§Ά Its claims
what's been told in this shape, newest first, in our words, with where each was heard
- 2026-09-25 βPaxton made insensitive comments about the Uvalde shooting.β π FactCheck.org
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