Inspired to ask this after last night’s umpteenth riots at a Dutch football match against Swedish Hammarby. It seems as if ever since covid happened, there’s multiple riots at football matches every week.
It also openly shows how an increasing amount of Dutch people have lost all their sense, thinking they can do whatever they want. Last week, a video of a Dutch tourist went viral after he was seen shitting on another sleeping tourist’s head in Mallorca. He blamed it on alcohol. Last night, several Hammarby fans were hospitalized after getting beat down by FC Twente fans. They justified it by saying they were ‘sitting in the home section’ (???). Last year several Dutch clubs have come into trouble after riots erupted at their matches, both national and international. Violence in nightlife seems to have increased.
Overall, Dutch society has become more shit. What about yours?
In the United States we saw how amazing things could be with doing it online and things were improved in some ways and hurt in others. I think many people became more socially aware due to seeing all the stuff with the police brutality and how financially people were injured. Online work/school was amazing but America decided they would rather do it the bad way in the past more. I think Covid was a mixed bag here in terms of social impact
I’m from The Netherlands too and totally agree with you. The bourgeoisie (the right) really used corona for there agenda. Society seems worse of than before corona. And the many years of neoliberalism also had it’s toll on the country and society.
Imagine a developing country with healthcare system already stretch thin before pandemic. Of course, pandemic handling won’t be perfect, which is a free poking point for neolibs and NED-subsidiary propaganda. Combined that with the West’s complete monopoly over internet in this region…well…
The things I’ve noticed are not unique to here. While informal employment was already rampant, app-based gig workers have skyrocketed in numbers. This includes workers for food delivery apps, grocery delivery apps, car/bike taxi apps, housekeeping apps and so on.
The Philippines’ fake news problem got worse.
I’m from Italy and I think it’s needless to explain how extremists here took the occasion to leverage the overall discontent about how the pandemic was managed to gain a tremendous political power and enforce questionable policies. More discontent and more polarization to come in the future…
