🧩 BND Motif Index · M755
Dead cat
A shocking topic is said to be thrown on the table on purpose, so everyone talks about the dead cat and not about the real issue: a distraction, deliberately made.
🕵️ Theories🗂️ Information integrity🗂️ Bad faith
- 4claims filed under it
- 3left shows it came up on
- 1right 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
🔗 goes with: 🧩 AI is existentially dangerous 🧩 Regulatory capture
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up, by the show's lean
⚖️ center 0
🦗 none of our center shows, so far
🐘 right 1
"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
- 2026-10-21 “Sébastien Lecornu has protesters tear-gassed and clubbed to create chaos and violence so he can appear as the party of order.”
🎙️ HasanAbi (podcast) - 2026-10-21 “MAGA Republicans use culture war issues like attacks on trans people and immigrants as a distraction from their own economic failures.”
🎙️ The MeidasTouch Podcast - 2026-10-06 “The media works in conjunction with the state to manipulate public attention and control narratives.”
🎙️ Candace (podcast) - 2026-10-05 “The AI industry uses existential threats to distract the public from the actual issues surrounding AI technology.”
🎙️ The Majority Report (podcast)
M755 · first seen 2026-10-10 · last 2026-10-23 · what this is · how the index works