What is wrong with us Nordics??

93% of what?

"We would rather back a genocidal regime that constantly tries to fix the competition votes, than have those five members in the competition, who between them have won the competition 14 times"

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"and we know that we have we have already disqualified 9 other entries in the past, including the Netherlands, but not for genocide. We're okay with that"

"What we really don't agree with is countries invading other countries! We take a very serious stance on that issue, as is evident with our expulsion of Russia from the competition"

Most people don't give a shit about anything abstract or remote. There's tons of users still on Twitter, Instagram, etc.

I could at least excuse 3% of it if they were fantastic, once in a lifetime performances. But we're talking about mediocre at best here. How low have the principles fallen?

Imagine supporting genocide just to watch some terrible musical acts. Does no one have principles anymore?

FTFY

No worries, Australia is already checking their voting in parliament.

Eurovision is really big here in Sweden, and Israel’s atrocities are hand-waved away by many.

I was surprised to learn that people could vote from the U.S. 🤔

• In Sweden, there was a Huge loss of viewers - 600,000 fewer people watched the final compared to last year

• In Norway Ratings sharply down for Eurovision final - NRK reports that there were only 676,000 viewers.

• In Denmark the final was the most-watched since 2019,with an average audience of 847,000

• According to Finnpanel (Finland TV and Radio stats) - https://www.finnpanel.fi/en/tulokset/tv/vko/top100/2026/20/index.html

The broadcast of the final of the song contest reached over 2.7 million viewers during the evening, roughly 1.8 million watched it.

I don't watch Eurovision myself but it's been huge here since it started in the 1950s and through the years when nobody else cared and before it became popular again so I think it would be near impossible to get Scandis to boycott it en masse.

I don't understand what this % is. 93% of Finns do not watch the Eurovision. More like 40%, if that.

No, they can kick Israel out until it gets its shit together.

Finland, just so we're clear. Otherwise, it's going to have to be a knife fight at the closest city centre. Finnish tradition and all.

White

They also don't have a European culture. They are war criminal theocrats with a supremecist constitution and dont sign on to global conventions that the rest of the EU does. They should be part of a middleeast-vision show. Plus no one wants to see their stupid effing racist songs on tv.

Israel, Bibi, and the US military are all lapdogs of Western capitalists.

35 million is not nobody?

This might help. https://pointerclicker.com/how-do-tv-know-how-many-viewers/

A lot of people don't consider it trash, more like a contaminated meal.

Isreal came in second place‽ I've never watched this shit once, but even I can tell that's not how the majority feels. Blatantly laughing in our face — once again. Cowards

People don’t like genociders here.

Unfortunately this is not true for all users and all 'genociders' ... There is a community here on Lemmy that supports dictatorships, including their genocidal policies.

they always cheat at literally everything.

1/5 is a lot, what are you on about? "should've been more" yes, and? 20% is a big win, it'd be more than enough to cancel many a show. I honestly am more bothered by the article saying "over Israel's war in Gaza" intead of acurately calling a genocide in Palestine

I thought so too, but it's still 35 million, also it has grown in viewership in the US.

It's roughly the entire population of Poland or Ukraine.

Or to make it sound more impressive, - It is roughly the entire populations of Croatia + Switzerland + Bulgaria + Norway + Denmark + Cyprus + Lithuania combined 😁

But I hope it gets worse year by year as an alternative grows.

⅕ is a huge fraction, what the fuck are you talking about?

You need to go back to high school if you think 20% is tiny

Here's a example of ⅕