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[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 1 points 6 minutes ago

The reason we don’t have a Western Hemisphere version is because it would be too much to watch everyone wash Drake in Spanish, French, Navajo, Portuguese, various indigenous languages, etc. Give that man some time to reconsider his decisions. Imagine getting roasted by one of the last speakers of an endangered Mayan dialect. That’s too much. And DJ Mustard has a busy schedule. He can’t make beats for every culture.

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 1 points 11 minutes ago* (last edited 10 minutes ago)

A lot of fascists in each country voting in unison for Israel while non-fascists votes got split up between all the other participants.

[–] Puddinghelmet@lemmy.world 6 points 2 hours ago

Bye losers, some/most of the israelis citizens don't even stand up against genocide by their own leader, **** off then

[–] Hotzilla@sopuli.xyz 23 points 5 hours ago

MoroccanOil is main sponsor of Eurovision, and it is Israeli company.

It's all about he money, babyy

[–] Grumpyleb@lemmus.org 38 points 5 hours ago

Ban Russia from everything, but obviously Israel is a "special case" where the rules of humanity has been suspended so they may do unto others, what was done to them.

[–] iasmina2007@lemmy.world 100 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Israel shouldn’t be allowed to participate in the first place.

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 50 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

They should have been thrown out once it got clear that their response to October 7 turned into a genocide.

[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 12 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

They're not in Europe, so they should have never been eligible to participate.

[–] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 38 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

This is not the reason why they should be out. They are a part of the EBU and therefore eligible.

The war and genocide is a clear violation though and got Russia kicked pretty fast when they invaded Ukraine

[–] Mihies@programming.dev 16 points 5 hours ago

They should be thrown out of EBU and any other European association a long time ago.

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 13 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Well akshually you only need to be within the European Broadcasting Area to participate; Middle Eastern countries other than Israel just don't.

[–] themadcodger@kbin.earth 5 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Then how does Australia get a pass?

[–] AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works 15 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

They're a long time affiliate member of the EBU and big Eurovision fans, they were invited for the 60th Eurovision (IIRC) to mark the event and they've just stuck around.

[–] Mora@pawb.social 5 points 3 hours ago

And I am really glad they did. They often brought some cool stuff on the stage.

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 5 points 7 hours ago

Meh, same goes for Australia, but I see your point.

[–] VirgilMastercard@reddthat.com 27 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

If Eurovision is non-political, invite Russia back to participate.

No fucking chance. The hypocrisy is astounding. Butchering innocent people is okay when the perpetrator is friendly to the west.

[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 5 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Well, 11 out of 37 total Eurovision participants are under threat of direct russian attack in the future, two of which already attacked and under occupation i.e. Georgia and Ukraine, so you'd ignore that at your own risk. Most eurovision countries have greater (urgent) self-interest in grounding russia before doing the same with israel, but I wouldn't say it is impossible, especially as genocide bibi starts to blame everyone for every stupid thing he does and diplomatic relations deteriorate.

[–] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 5 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

It's technically not countries participating, but broadcasters and they need to be independent of state control. The russian broadcasters were not kicked out for the russian invasion of Ukraine, but for being state controlled. They were accused of this for a long time and the invasion was the final straw.

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 3 points 2 hours ago

It’s technically not countries participating, but broadcasters and they need to be independent of state control

So...same problem as the geography question then. How the fuck does Australia participate? As best I can tell, it's broadcast here on SBS, a state-owned broadcaster.

[–] RejZoR@lemmy.ml 32 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Lol, just now? Eurovision has been political charade the entire fucking time. It's not "best artist wins" it's friend countries voting for eachother.

[–] czl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 6 hours ago

Being a popularity contest is not a problem. It’s always been like that, it’s “whatever”. Like it, don’t like. Doesn’t matter.

But Israel manipulating votes to “artwash” genocide is a whole different bag of cats, and very wrong.

[–] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

Its gotten worse for every year