• شاهد على إبادة@lemm.ee
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    They banned Russia for war crimes but not Israel. Nothing about what they ban is consistent or makes sense unless their goal is appealing to right wing fascism.

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      Tbf the only reason they banned the Russian broadcasters was because a big number of other EBU members were threatening with boycott if Russians were allowed to compete. Which didnt happen with Israel, where only a handful of members wanted to see them banned.

      And it’s pretty easy to see why it is illogical - because you have 56+ broadcasters on the deciding table, between which key personnel can change regularly.

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    the fucking churches fly pride flags here, are these churches not part of the country? hey christians, eurovision banned religious imagery!

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    Yes. Banning free expression on the contest that’s for… free expression. Well done guys, liberals owned 🇺🇸👊🔥

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    cyprus should have won over israel in 2018 anyway

    also lol at banning pride flags in the 69th edition of the gayest music show

    iceland is gonna say fuck that

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      Territorial flags have been banned for years, the new rule is specifically about non-territorial flags.

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    Without us they’d be nothing, what an incredibly foolish move on their part. Fuck Eurovision

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        Lol yes of course. How they also lost when they didn’t ban Israel? Eurovision doesn’t care and the people don’t care either.

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        Lol, no

        Most people won’t ever see this news, and even then, many people wouldn’t care.

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          If there is a group of people we can trust to properly boycott shit is the Eurovision fans.

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            Sure, the fans… But the majority of the viewers are people like my parents, who are entertained by it for a week, don’t really care all that much about anything but the national rivalry and the cool shows and music, and then it clears off their mind until the next year.

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    But they have no problem with the flag of a country that kills dozens, hundreds of people, right? What a bunch of morons.

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      All flags except the flag of the country they represent seems to be banned:

      Participants are also barred from holding flags to express solidarity with other countries such as Ukraine, Palestine, or Israel.

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      Tens or hundreds of thousands and still counting. But it is the gays that are the problem, apparently, not those who commit genocide.

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        That are confirmed. The real numbers are much higher as there is thousands of people who are “missing”. Also if an entire family gets annihilated there is sometimes no one left to report the people as missing.

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    Eurovision has seen the participation of many LGBTQ+ artists over the years, most recently, in 2024, nonbinary singer Nemo from Switzerland won the competition. Nemo revealed at the time of the competition that they were told not to bring the non-binary flag on stage, however, the artist was able to smuggle one in, according to PinkNews.

    I was going to ask about Nemo and their NB flag. I had no idea that this was already an existing rule and that they were breaking rules to sneak it in. Good for them! Their song was legitimately the best one from last year, too (video).

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      They should borrow Bambie Thug’s trans flag swimsuit that fae had on-stage

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        If I recall correctly, they had their flag at their team booth after their performance, and (maybe?) brought it on stage after the votes were finally tallied and determined them to be the winner.

        I do have a strong recollection of them cheerfully waving their flag during the long vote tallying process.

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          Which is probably why they now want to ban all non-competing country flags from all official areas including the team booth too.

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    This is about flags specifically. Presumably pride designs in non-flag format are fine.

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    “Hello, I am from Queer, specifically the municipality of Gay. I’m here to make this stage mine. By force. Here is my rendition of ultraviolence by Alex DeLarge to the beat of “Ultraviolence” by Lana Del Ray.”