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This year in 2025, they even made fun of the Armenians. I can’t remember exactly what they said, but it was definitely something along the lines of “I can’t believe we gave these guys a quarter in Jerusalem”
I have ultimately lost faith in these commentators. So much for being an “independent reporter”, EBU. I mean yeah, they’re facing the threat of privatization, but for now they’re public and state-owned, so there’s literally no excuses here.
Countries are finally speaking up about this, I’ve been waiting for like, 2 years already.
Israel has undeniably brought the contest into disrepute twice in a row with them sending basically political entries with shady ad campaigns that made a select few voters disproportionately vote for Israel, causing them to spike up in the ranking (almost winning the 2025 contest; JJ is our savior), and yet the EBU just doesn’t even care about this? And when Russia did the whole “let’s take all of Ukraine” move, it took 10 countries to immediately speak up for them to get suspended. Ukraine won that year btw. Like… if the EBU are gonna keep saying the Eurovision Song Contest is “apolitical”, then they have to accept the harsh reality that making your participants be countries immediately makes it otherwise. And this is not the exception, it’s the norm. Both the Olympic Games and the FIFA World Cup have had similar disrepute incidents in the past, most notably with apartheid South Africa.
Either way, if more countries drop out due to Israel’s continued participate, that could ultimately result in enough awareness for the EBU to finally kick them out for good. Otherwise, the only solution is the privatization of their broadcaster, which literally nobody wants.
I thought it was just a coincidence.
As a Moroccan, I can relate. We’re ranked as the most patriotic country in the world, but I honestly can’t see exactly why. Like, sure, we have cool cities and cool dishes, but we also have problems regarding the Healthcare and education sectors, tourist traps, immigration problems (both from outsiders living here and Moroccans living abroad), consistently terrible internet speeds, public sexual harassment on women, like how is this something to be proud of? And I haven’t even gotten into geopolitics, which is a whole can of worms that I’d rather keep unopened.
And you mean to tell me that WE are tasked with hosting the World Cup? That smells like a giant catastrophe waiting to happen.
My city got rained on during a lunar eclipse. I’m not kidding.
Classic example of faux Cyrillic.
I love the Sporty Rooster.
Donald goes rogue.
She basically told the transphobic bigots to fuck themselves.
Transphobia hurts literally everyone, not just transgender people. Unfortunately this statement hits a little too close to home.
I mentioned both their competitions in my comment.