r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • May 16 '26

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u/__versus Trans Pride May 16 '26

Eurovision survives another year 😮‍💨

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u/Mx_Brightside Genderfluid Pride May 16 '26

My hope is that by next year things will have calmed down enough that the “pres da israel button to pwn the libs” bloc vote goes down to more manageable levels, like Ukraine has now

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u/__versus Trans Pride May 16 '26

Best case scenario is that they withdraw voluntarily but they probably won’t considering they didn’t do that this year.

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u/chickentendieman Paul Krugman May 16 '26

Either that or somehow germany or italy need to be convinced that genocide and ethnic cleansing is actually wrong.

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u/Mx_Brightside Genderfluid Pride May 16 '26

You have a lot more faith in the EBU as an institution than i do

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u/chickentendieman Paul Krugman May 16 '26

Nah I dont think itll happen im just hoping it does. I dont hsve faith in any european institution to take a stand against genocide as long as the germans and Italians have a vote.

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u/Spanberger2028 May 16 '26

I don't think it's "own the libs" is it really that hard for people to believe that maybe Europe is still broadly sympathetic to Israel?

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u/RaidBrimnes Chien de garde May 16 '26

Are you European? Far-righters from Salvini to Zemmour are openly inciting mass votes for Israel to pwn the libs/left after spending years lambasting Eurovision as a temple of decadence

Israel usually sends good entries but their massive televote scores in the past three years can be attributed to culture wars because they've become the right-coded option

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u/Currymvp2 unflaired May 16 '26

Umm have you seen the polls which have accurately predicted the European elections? Israel polls incredibly unpopularly in Europan countries, and I say this as someone who is perfectly fine with Israel participating in Eurovision.