{"id":10320,"date":"2026-06-12T09:26:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T06:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=10320"},"modified":"2026-06-12T09:26:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T06:26:00","slug":"things-are-simple-in-the-fairy-tale-land-of-the-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=10320","title":{"rendered":"Things are simple in the fairy-tale land of the Left"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the &#8220;progressive&#8221; camp, people are always much more important than numbers.<\/p>\n<p><b>costing <\/b>(n) 1. an accounting process for determining the cost of a service, a product, a project, or a political program \u201cwe will never cost our program because ideas are not products for sale\u201d <\/p>\n<p>2. something of little significance \u201cSince you love him, the fact that he voted for Doukas in the municipal elections is, I think, just a formality\u201d <\/p>\n<h3><b>Costing in due course <\/b><\/h3>\n<p>\u201c\u201cThe cost estimate will come in the next few days,\u201d Comrade Antonopoulou assured after speaking about the program to combat inflation of ELAS (led by Alexis, not Michalis) and, in my opinion, she was wrong to bother responding. Because in the \u201cprogressive\u201d camp, people are always much more important than numbers, since numbers, unlike people, cannot be easily deceived. And at the end of the day, <b>there is money<\/b>, and the Hellenic Police (Alexis\u2019s, not Michalis\u2019s) will find it through the patriotic tax they will impose (always according to Comrade Antonopoulou) on 0.02% of <b>businesses<\/b>. <b>That is, on approximately 180 businesses, each of which will contribute a few tens of millions because President Tsipras wants it. <\/b>That\u2019s how simple things are in the fairy-tale land of the Left, and as the elections approach, they will become even simpler.<\/p>\n<h3><b>It will burn others<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>And why not spend 75 million loan to the Municipality of Athens, comrade Doukas? Anyway, he\u2019s not going to be re-elected as mayor, so the hot potato of repayment will burn others\u2014so why not use the municipality to boost his profile?<\/p>\n<h3><b>Foreign policy and the zodiac<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>The quantum doctor\u2019s idea of psychoanalyzing the Turks with whom Greek officials are negotiating not only refutes those who accuse her of having no plan but is also just a small part of the <b>many good ideas of Ms. Maria on foreign policy<\/b>. Proposals regarding zodiac signs, physiognomists, and numerologists will follow shortly.<\/p>\n<h3><b>For treatment<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>\u201cPsychological problems\u201d was the excuse given by the thug who calmly punched a female driver because she didn\u2019t give him the right of way, and I think the state should share in his drama and lead him to the only place suitable for treating such psychological problems: prison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the &#8220;progressive&#8221; camp, people are always much more important than numbers.<br \/>\ncosting (n) 1. an accounting process for determining the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10321,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}