{"id":3340,"date":"2026-04-30T12:22:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T09:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=3340"},"modified":"2026-04-30T12:22:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T09:22:00","slug":"they-left-the-sticks-they-got-the-software-the-coalition-of-despair-strikes-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=3340","title":{"rendered":"They left the &#8220;sticks&#8221;, they got the&#8230; software: the &#8220;coalition of despair&#8221; strikes again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If one puts&#8230; <b>wisdom<\/b> and <b>watching <\/b> side by side, one will find a <b>pattern<\/b> repeated by &#8220;<b>the alliance of desperation<\/b>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;<b>wisdom<\/b>&#8221; was based on extreme &#8211; but palatable &#8211; <b>conspiracy<\/b> theories <b>and the drawings made by <b>multi-talented fact-checkers-experts-experts-in <b>the Internet<\/b> in <b>telephones<\/b> against the backdrop of <b>victims<\/b> Tempi tragedy.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>There has been extreme and sometimes <b>strong instrumentalization<\/b> not only of the victims&#8217; relatives but also of the victims themselves, as well as exploitation of the victims&#8217; anger and emotions to &#8220;rise up&#8221; against the government and of course personally against<b> Kyriakos Mitsotakis.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;<b>cover-up<\/b>&#8221; slogans became slogans that continue today on another issue with the same rationale. <b>Stirring up the mire, making the mud and turning on the fan.<\/b> Without evidence on the basis of &#8220;they said, they heard, it is certain&#8221;, extreme toxicity and populism are again chosen as a compensation for the inability to express political discourse and alternatives for citizens and the country.<\/p>\n<p>The legal backlinks of the <b>EJP <\/b>&#8220;<b>were<\/b>&#8221; with an illegal <b>software<\/b> and put into the mixer of smear and vulgarity only to set up a narrative and <b>involve the Prime Minister<\/b> and <b>Gregoris Dimitriadis<\/b> who was &#8211; and is &#8211; a red rag for those who want to damage the government and hurt New Democracy.<\/p>\n<p>The rationale behind the <b>fake news <\/b>and the conspiracy theories, simple: the illegal software had been sent to the phones of persons who were being monitored, legally and with <b>prosecutor signatures<\/b>, by the NSA. No, to some of them. And had it worked on all of them? No on a few, perhaps counted on the fingers of one hand.<\/p>\n<p>Well, so what? As if they&#8217;d let reality spoil the narrative based on the well-known<b>&#8220;rod in the corner, therefore it&#8217;s raining&#8221;<\/b>. Besides, the tactic is well known. It was captured when &#8220;<b>Rasputin<\/b>&#8221; was comfortably declaring during the time of the popular <b>Tsipras<\/b> government &#8220;send them to justice and let them prove that <b>they are not guilty&#8221;<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>After all, the quotes are enough. And the anger. The <b>Internet <\/b>is doing its job, although in the case of <b>piracy<\/b> and illegal software the media have also come in strong, since there are also domestic people who are interested in&#8230; political change, i.e. <b>&#8220;getting Mitsotakis out of office&#8221;.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The <b>attack <\/b>against <b>Justice <\/b>and personally against its officials such as the prosecutor of the <b>Aryan Supreme Court<\/b>, <b>Constantine Tzavellas<\/b>, <b>just confirms the pattern that started with the beating, reached the illegal software with <b>OPEKEPE<\/b> as an intermediate stop.<\/p>\n<p>What the proponents of this tactic forget, however, is that so far it has all gone&#8230; bucket. 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