Comment on Eurovision loses almost a quarter of UK viewers compared with 2023
CritFail@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I’m waiting on the news story uncovering the voting farms funded by the Israeli government, wanting to parallel the Ukraine 2022 result to claim vindication for their ongoing genocide of the Palestinians. Disgusting.
1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
Not voting for Israel wasn’t going to have an impact if you weren’t voting for them anyway, however people who support Israel in the conflict voting for them will have an effect that there’s very little you can do to stop. You don’t think Russia would have had voting farms to stop Ukraine if it was possible? That’s why they got so many votes - if they have 15% support, then they’ll get that 15% of votes which is a significant number.
Devi@kbin.social 7 months ago
Making a country win is way easier than making one lose. You'd have to put in enough votes for every country as you don't know how other countries will vote.
There's definitely been an organised plan for Israel, people have spoken about it openly on twitter
1rre@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
And there was an “organised plan” for Ukraine in 2022 insofar as people decided to vote for them regardless of their performance, which the few people who supported Russia in the conflict were probably pretty mad at, but couldn’t do anything to stop, just as people who support Palestine can’t do anything to stop Israel supporters here.
The reason Israel didn’t win is they have fewer supporters, but how Palestine’s supporters and frankly neutrals also are feeling is how Russia’s supporters and the smaller number of neutrals there felt… It’s impossible to keep politics out of this and it’s just a shame really
Devi@kbin.social 7 months ago
I think you're confused by what an organised plan is...
HumanPenguin@feddit.uk 7 months ago
Honesty politics of some form happens at every euro v. We are always hearing about nations using votes to express their like or dislike for other nations.
It seems to just be a fact of life with this comp. Most just laugh it off in the media afterwards.
CritFail@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I suppose that is a fair comment and a possible reason, along with those who boycotted the event will have diminished all votes going to other acts.
I still think there is a likelihood that Israel tried to play the game on public votes, because it would be a minimal spend for a big PR boost for them. Having a big Israeli company sponsor bought them a lot of the judge votes, then this move would have topped it up. It was just my initial thought when the 300+ points came up. The majority of the crowd did not take that well, along with all of the other stories about booing at the semis, the canned applause on the TV coverage to cover it up, the vote swing just seemed like too big a massive juxtaposition to global sentiment for it to carry weight.
loobkoob@kbin.social 7 months ago
I saw an article on the Torygraph titled something like "I voted for Israel in Eurovision to spite the woke", and there were people in the comments talking about how they'd sent in 20 votes for Israel. And others talking about how "the left" are relentless bullies for making the Israeli singer cry, etc.
I'm wouldn't be surprised if Israel did try to influence the votes, but I think there are plenty of right-wingers willing do do it for free, too.