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Comment on UK's 'dismal' Eurovision song choices to be examined by MPs

Brits need to chill the fuck out when it comes to Eurovision. It’s a contest where you’re judged by the community, so when you’re routinely dicks to your neighbours you’re gonna lose… a lot. It has very little to do with the act on stage.

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tacosanonymous@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
If that’s true, how did Israel win?

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- ViatorOmnium@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  They have a sizeable group of supporters in lots of European countries that will vote on them and no one else no matter what. There’s also a large group that will not vote on them no matter what, but group splits the vote between all the other contestants. So in general, Israel benefits from the polarisation.
  
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  - Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    The Israeli government also invests in marketing to encourage its citizens to vote in Eurovision.
    
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    kuiskaaja@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    other countries citizens*
    
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- 0x0@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Sects and cults do be like that
  
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- HerbGrower@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Bribes and Android VMs?
  
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- Zorque@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Didnt they get second place?
  
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  - tacosanonymous@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    That’s way better than they should have. They didn’t win the last one but I think there was a pretty recent one.
    
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deHaga@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
How has the UK been routinely dicks? We never won when we were in the EU either.

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- jabjoe@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Afghanistan and Iraq? Already dominating music industry? Being rubbish at languages because they all speak ours? Even in the EU, we were “Extrawurst” all the time. Denominating finance (partly with dark money).
  
  Even before Brexit, we made ourselves unpopular.
  
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  - deHaga@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Lol
    
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- tazeycrazy@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  The UK/bbc is also one of the major funders so it gets an automatic place in the final. So merit is not nessassery in the opening.
  
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  - deHaga@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Sam Ryder was pretty good
    
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    tazeycrazy@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    He is but I think the scales need rebalanced to allow the UK to not make it into the final. And actually work for the final.
    
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