{"id":11618,"date":"2026-06-19T08:49:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T05:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=11618"},"modified":"2026-06-19T08:49:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T05:49:00","slug":"they-have-no-idea-about-the-things-they-speak-of-with-such-certainty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=11618","title":{"rendered":"They have no idea about the things they speak of with such certainty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>shame (n) 1. a feeling that makes you watch your words and actions in order to avoid negative comments; \u201cwhen you don\u2019t feel the slightest bit of shame, you have no problem saying anything\u201d 2. that which does not exist \u201cFor most leaders of the so-called progressive movement, common sense is a source of shame\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I was listening to Comrade Nifoudis say that \u201cthe free ticket on the public transit costs 80 euros for a worker going to work or for an unemployed person looking for a job,\u201d and then I heard Comrade Petros Pappas say that \u201cthe earnings are proportional to how much they travel each day, and young people travel a lot\u2026 a young person can earn a lot,\u201d and I wondered how these people must feel. <\/p>\n<p>Those who aren\u2019t ashamed to speak with confidence about something they know nothing about, and at the same time are so lazy that they won\u2019t spend even a minute looking into it and finding out that a monthly unlimited-ride pass costs 27 euros and takes you wherever you want as many times as you want, and that the unemployed don\u2019t pay anything at all. <\/p>\n<p>But you\u2019ll tell me here that one of them isn\u2019t ashamed to be in the party of someone he called a \u201cclown\u201d and the other isn\u2019t ashamed to be elected with SYRIZA, to support Kasselakis, and ultimately ends up with PASOK\u2014will they be too ashamed to spin fairy tales about ticket prices?<\/p>\n<h3><b>It makes sense<\/b><br \/><\/h3>\n<p>I think the word \u201cridiculous,\u201d used by comrade Diamantopoulou used to describe the proposal by comrade Doukas to start the backroom deals with Tzokondo right now. It\u2019s ridiculous if you want to stay in PASOK. But if you want to break it up so you can join ELAS, it makes perfect sense.<\/p>\n<h3><b>They\u2019re not good with numbers<\/b><br \/><\/h3>\n<p>In the end, the 4 billion promised to us by (formerly PASOK, now the Jokondou Party) Comrade Saoulidis\u2014based on the 1,500 tax ID numbers reporting over 900,000\u2014is, according to Comrade Balatsoukas, 465 million, but that\u2019s okay. People matter more than numbers.<\/p>\n<h3><b>Rehabilitation<\/b><br \/><\/h3>\n<p>The devastating war in Iran and Hegese\u2019s attack on the other NATO ministers confirm the need for the rest of the Western countries to break free as quickly as possiblefrom a country where someone like Trump could become president.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>shame (n.) 1. a feeling that makes you watch your words and actions in order to avoid negative comments \u201cwhen you don\u2019t feel the slightest bit of shame &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11619,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11618","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\/11618","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=11618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11618\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}