🧩 BND Motif Index · M791
The revolution eats its own
Radicals who would burn it all down are said to end on their own guillotine: the revolution devours its children, as Robespierre found.
- 3claims filed under it
- 6right shows 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.
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up (0 left-leaning, 0 center, 6 right-leaning so far), colored by the show's lean; the bar is how many of its claims each one heard
- right-leaning
"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 so many words
the words that carry it
💬 the tellers' own words: “oh no, I'm safe, I'm one of them. You're not.” “the left turns on itself. Because it is an inherently uncontrollable movement. They pump oxygen into the fire on a day-to-day basis and are continuously shocked that it has set their home ablaze... That's the monster that you created and you unleashed” “the leftists, the communists partnered with the Islamists and they overthrew the Shah. And then what happened? The Islamists eliminated the left” “They said to the socialists, you're godless infidels.”
🧶 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
🦗 No claim heard only on the left so far.
Told on the right 3
claims heard on right-leaning shows, and no left-leaning one
- 2026-11-03 “Leftists and communists partnered with Islamists to overthrow the Shah in Iran, only to be eliminated by them.” 2
- 2026-10-09 “Leftists infiltrate groups by pretending to belong, and radical leftists end at their own guillotine.” 1
- 2026-10-09 “The left is an inherently uncontrollable movement that sets its own home ablaze.” 3
M791 · first seen 2026-10-10 · last 2026-11-03 · what this is · how the index works