... You guys aren't supporting the best music?
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I am disgusted that Australia entered
Especially given that their previous "success" was a plant from a church that is a cult, and we're not in Europe >!I know that Australia is an "honorary" entrant or some shit!<
As an american, I support this. And don't come at me about our currently policies, I hate them as well
Eurovision is bland. Don't touch it.
They should make it so you can't vote for your own country at all. If you vote you vote for any of the others.
Means whoever wins isn't just the act with the largest domestic audience
Neither juries nor phone-ins have been able to vote for their own country since 1957.
i'm glad they took my feedback onboard so promptly
Better yet. Boycott the genocide supporting asshats completely.
I've been a diehard fan since 2009 but I stopped watching 2 years ago. It's not been easy and I miss the show, but I can't support this
You didn't miss much. This year was genuinely bad from a quality perspective. Finland was the only song that had any replay merit, and it was okay.
Regrettably Eurovision is Europe's largest (unofficial) pride event. It's a time you can dress up in all your most fabulous attire and queen out, with complete impunity. Allowing the Israelis to steal that from us would be an absolute tragedy. Of course if their vote manipulation actually wins it for them, that's a different story.
Bad news fam, Israel has already stolen it years ago, even somewhat turned it into a propaganda for them.
It's high time those racist, murderous scum are kicked out, or all that fabulous is moved somewhere else.
As it stands now, Eurovision is as hypocritical as it gets. They boycott Russia but bend over backwards for Israel. Palestinian flags have been banned for years now.
The Russian state broadcaster - not the country mind you - was suspended because it and Russia openly violate the EBU statutes, not because of the war. Press freedom in Russia took a nosedive after the beginning of the war.
Belarus was suspended in 2021 for the exact same reasons already mind you. There is also no specific Eurovision suspension, only a suspension from the EBU entirely.
The Israeli state broadcaster and Israel does, as far as I know, not violate these statutes. Or rather, any interpretation that would lead that state broadcaster to be suspended must suspend several others as well. As such, the EBU executive board has no grounds to suspend the Israeli state broadcaster with the current rules.
Even something like targeting journalists in a war zone would not be a violation I believe because the EBU statutes only refer to the country's own territory. It's just a war crime.
That's why the Israeli suspension from Eurovision was put to a vote before the other members last year and not decided by the executive board, like with the Russian and Belarusian broadcasters.
There is no hypocrisy. A country committing genocide does not violate the EBU statutes because they do not concern themselves with anything but broadcasting. As soon as Israel starts being like Russia in that regard there are grounds for suspension.
That is not true, they retroactively changed the narrative why Russia was kicked off. Originally it was about the war.
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Gay marriage was legalised first in the Netherlands in Europe. Then Belgium and then Spain. The Netherlands and Spain are boycotting Eurovision.
Maybe we should join the pioneers in pride progress and take a stance against Eurovision altogether.
I'm afraid the campest mass European show has been thoroughly subverted and is now pinkwashing for Genocide.
The people who were supposed to stop that are throughly complicit in making it a celebration of the modern day NAZIsm called Zionism.
A camp NAZI bar is still a NAZI bar.
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why is Israel even in Eurovision? they're in Asia
THATS WHAT IM SAYING (could be because eurovision is funded by moroccanoil)
Not really, they were part of the EBU in the 80s and have been participating ever since. The ESC isn't really about europe as Australia is also participatin
Because the important factor is being in the European Broadcasting Area. This area is bigger than the European sub-continent and includes all countries with Mediterranean coastline and some countries to the east of Israel. Wikipedia has this helpful map:
dark green: Countries which have participated in the Contest at least once.
yellow: Countries which are eligible to participate, but have not (yet) done so.
light green: Countries which have competed in the contest as a part of another country, but never as a sovereignty.
red: Countries which were supposed to compete in the contest but withdrew right before the final.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:EurovisionParticipants.svg
As you can see Marokko competed one time, Tunesia and Lebanon had had at one time real plans to compete and Jordan and Irak are also eligible but opt to not participate.
Australia on the other hand isn't eligible at all but requires a special invitation from the EBU which they have received every year for the last ten years and are likely to receive until the contest collapses.
Eurovision
1% music
99% nationalist pseudopolitics
I don't know why Israel just had to keep participating in Eurovision and pushing so hard for the win.
You know how the competition goes, right? You get huge hype along the lines of "ooh I think Finland has real chance of winning this year" and then, I dunno, Bulgaria randomly wins or something. Every time. There clearly are forces at work beyond our mortal comprehension here, and no nation-state can meddle with it.
Moroccanoil, the ESC sponsor, is despite what its name suggests an Israeli company. So the overall incentive structure there might be a tad skewed.
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Love Jews, boycott zionists
*love semites
That way you include Palestinians as well.
Sure, but I want to mention Jews specifically because Israel and zionists claim to represent them. They don't
Unreadable font.
Before I had a smartphone, I used to consume memes in subreddits' RSS feeds with the Opera Mini browser. The already tiny preview images were scaled down to 140x140 and compressed to 5kB JPEGs by the transcoder. At least the phone didn't scale them down, the software is incapable of rendering images outside native resolution...
Yes, it's worse than sans-serif would be at that size but I can read most characters and figure out the rest from context. And you can tilt the phone to adjust the contrast (bad viewing angles on that TFT, significant color changes even between eyes at normal viewing distance). It looks better in person without the moirè and in the dark with the scratches being less prominent.
Dude, your setup must suck...
This is best of Lemmy tier shitposting.
You'll have to type louder, I'm on WAP from 1997
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Better yet don't support Eurovision
Only person and only time I've ever cared about Eurovision is because Look Mum No Computer is in it and I love his stuff and have followed for a while. Sad he didn't get to do a live performance on his synth because of the rules tho
Part of me wants to see what shitshow it becomes when it gets hosted in Tel Aviv.
Otherwise I don't watch and don't care.
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Interacting with Eurovision at all is not ok imo. Aside from gleefully hosting and spreading propaganda (one of Israel's entries the past two years had blatant genocidal rhetoric in it) for a nation committing a genocide, the main sponsor is an Israeli company. Or at least it was in previous years. I haven't seen anything Eurovision related this year.
... how exactly do you think eurovision works?
Bulgaria's song is kind of a banger too so that helps lol
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