JochCool

This is not news. It was the same last year.

It’s the second time politics has dominated Eurovision,

Okay, this author has not been following Eurovision for very long then. Here are some that come to mind:

• 1964: Stage invader protested against Spain’s and Portugal’s dictatorships
• 1969: Organised by Spain
• 1973: Israel debuts
• 1977: BBC cameramen stike right before the contest
• 1978: Israel wins
• 1990s: Yugoslav Wars and dissolution of Soviet Union, with some countries participating while at war
• 1998: Israel wins, with a trans performer
• 2003: Invasion of Iraq, UK was allowed to participate but got last place
• 2009: Azerbaijani government interrogates people who voted for Armenia, Georgian entry is anti-Putin
• 2012: Organised by Azerbaijan
• 2014: Start of Russo-Ukrainian war
• 2016: Ukraine wins over televote favourite Russia
• 2019: Organised by Israel
• 2021: Belarusian entry being government propaganda
• 2022: Russian invasion of Ukraine

Eurovision has always been political.

493 in favour, that makes me very happy to hear. Amid all the horrors of the time we live in, there are still some places where some human rights are unchallenged.

Not every Eastern European country is like Hungary though… In fact it’s only Hungary, now that Poland’s getting a new government.

Also it’s not like Western Europe’s free of populists either.

At least then limit your attacks on the Israeli military or police. Mass killing civilians does not do anything about the genocide of Palestine. There’s a good chance it’ll only make it worse.

The idea that people just being in a country are automatically complicit with the government’s actions is the real mental gymnastics here. And yeah I understand that hatred can make people blind, but that does not make it justifiable.

Shoot the person harassing you, sure. That’s something completely different from killing civillians arbitrarily.

I still have some Reddit Premium left, so I don’t get ads, so I don’t feel guilty about visiting the site occasionally. But I removed the link to Reddit from my task bar, so the times I visit the site is almost always just because I followed a link.
That said, I do miss Reddit a little bit. Kbin replaces it partially, but simply because if its size it’s much more likely you find something interesting on Reddit than on here.

It’s weird if it’s real, but it’s also weird if it’s fake. That’d mean that they moved a lot of troops out of Ukraine, split them up with some heading to Moscow and others staying in Rostov, destroyed the morale of the Russian soldiers staying in Ukraine and allowed Ukraine to continue their counteroffensive, shot down six of their own helicopters and a plane in the conflict, and killed and wounded several of their own soldiers, all just for show. They could have done this so much more efficiently.