FelixCress@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 12 hours agoEurovision: Israel's result prompts questions over votingwww.bbc.co.ukexternal-linkmessage-square24fedilinkarrow-up1143arrow-down14file-text
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minus-squareRejZoR@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up35arrow-down1·11 hours agoLol, just now? Eurovision has been political charade the entire fucking time. It’s not “best artist wins” it’s friend countries voting for eachother.
minus-squareczl@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up38·11 hours agoBeing 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.
minus-squarecosmicrookie@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·11 hours agoIts gotten worse for every year
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.
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.
Its gotten worse for every year