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I will never understand hooligans. What’s the thought process of: Yay, I’m happy. Let’s trash the streets and set something on fire.
Do soccer fans trash their house and set it on fire after watching a win on TV?
Their homes are already trash
Of course. Being french and having experienced a football game are two good reasons to riot. Both at once.
I like how you combined having won and having lost a football game into the same thing. Efficient use of space that is.
Is this a soccer thing or other sports fans also have that many hooligans Edit: spelling
Typical for France, especially PSG. The major problem is that these morons don’t understand that somebody needs to pay for all the damage, firefighters and police - this is mostly the country, meaning the people. But AFAIK leftist are happy about it.
Leftists? How come? Unless the left in France is different than in the US
I would say there is a difference between leftists in the US and in Europe, although there are certainly overlaps. For example, I haven’t seen anything in the US comparable to the scenes during the G20 protests in Hamburg or the 01st May demonstrations in Berlin and Connewitz.
On the other hand, we can ask the question: what exactly is a „leftist"? We can ask the same about „right-wingers." Is someone who follows communist ideas necessarily a leftist? Some people would say yes, others would disagree. Likewise, some people might consider a conservative to be right-wing, while others would see them as simply conservative. So, both the left and the right exist on a spectrum, which can make labels difficult to define precisely.
However, I used the term „leftist" in my previous comment because Paris has a large and influential left-wing community. As far as I know, Lyon is - as a counterexample - generally more conservative and there I never came across such scenes like in the clip from Paris. But perhaps some French users can correct me if I’m mistaken.
