🧩 BND Motif Index · M508
Cut off your nose to spite your face
To do something angry or vengeful that harms you more than the person you want to punish
- 4claims filed under it
- 1right show it came up on
- 3claims 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.
🪜 Its family
what it rests on, what rests on it, and the motifs that answer it
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up, by the show's lean
🫏 left 0
🦗 none of our left shows, so far
⚖️ 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.
📰 In the news
the stories its claims were told about, the most told first (matched by our tools, so a link can be wrong)
- 📰 Ken Paxton accuses John Cornyn of hoping he loses Texas Senate race in leaked audio 2026-10-09 to 2026-10-10
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, newest first, in our words, with where each was heard
- 2026-10-26 “BC voters have elected themselves into a lot of hurt because of bad decisions and leadership.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-20 “Voters punish their own side by choosing bad candidates to avoid imperfect ones.”
🎙️ The Michael Berry Show - 2026-10-11 “The Texas GOP is failing by prioritizing 'owning the libs' and running bad candidates like Paxton over the actual needs of the electorate.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-05 “Florida's government is targeting Canadians through a property tax scheme that will drive them out of the state and harm its economy.” 🧶 people online
M508 · first seen 2026-10-06 · last 2026-10-26 · what this is · how the index works