The internal conflict in the digital underworld that supported Stefan Kasselakis<\/b> reveals the true face of toxicity<\/b>.<\/p>\n
The picture was rather predictable. When you build political influence on anonymous profiles, aggressive comments and digital “task forces”, sooner or later the system starts to self-destruct.<\/b>That’s exactly what has been happening in recent days in the microcosm of the trolls who supported Stefanos Kasselakis and SYRIZA more broadly.<\/p>\n
The last 24 hours on social media have been more like a settling of scores than a political debate. Profiles that until recently operated in coordination are now exchanging heavy accusations, hints of funding and even personal attacks. The narrative of “progressive unity” seems to have collapsed amid a flurry of screenshots, denunciations and public outbursts.<\/p>\n
The operation of these digital mechanisms is not new. For years, SYRIZA has invested in a culture of online aggression, aimed at deconstructing opponents and creating a climate. Anonymous accounts, organized hashtags, targeting journalists and political opponents.<\/b> The problem is that such structures lack principles. They only have vested interests and conjunctural alliances. And when the balance shifts, the “troops” disintegrate.<\/p>\n
The rise of Stefanos Kasselakis to the party leadership brought with it a new generation of supporters, more aggressive, more person-centred and often more disconnected from the traditional base of the left. The result? Two different worlds that never really matched. Now that political pressure is mounting and the polls are not following expectations, conflict has become inevitable. Kasselakis left, founded his own party and the trolls… are eating each other. <\/p>\n
When your main tool is toxicity, you can’t expect civilized dialogue once things go wrong. What we’re seeing is the same pattern coming back as a boomerang.<\/b> Complaints of “paid trolls”, accusations of personal gain, attacks of “betrayal” of the “line”. The public discourse has fallen flat and resembles more reality than the political scene.<\/b><\/p>\n
And the best part? It’s not a debate between political rivals. It’s a civil war. Between people who until yesterday were fighting the same battle in the same digital arena.<\/p>\n
This shows something deeper: that politics based on such practices lacks depth. It has no coherence and no rules. It is a sand-built edifice that crumbles at the first wave of internal challenge.<\/p>\n
The phenomenon is not just graphic. It has political significance. Because behind the profiles and hashtags is a strategy that has influenced political culture in recent years. The government, for all its flaws, chose a more institutional route to communication<\/b>; it did not invest in armies of anonymous accounts as a key tool for political survival. And this is now showing.<\/p>\n
In contrast,in Syriza, the choice of toxicity has created an environment that is no longer controlled. <\/b>The monster they fed is now turning against them.<\/p>\n
The message is clear: politics cannot rely on basement voices. It needs seriousness, consistency and clear speech. Everything that is missing from the party’s current image.<\/p>\n
And somewhere here, in the digital noise, the truth is revealed. That behind the “movements” and online storms, there is often nothing more than temporary alliances and fragile balances.The Internet does not forget. And when the masks come off, the spectacle is not just uncomfortable. It’s revelatory.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The internal conflict in the digital underworld that supported Stefanos Kasselakis reveals the true face of toxicity.
\nThe picture was rather …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1918,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1917","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=1917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}