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Aral Balkan @aral@mastodon.ar.al
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Fucking yes… finally! Thank you, Ireland, Spain, and Netherlands!

“Ireland will not participate in next year’s Eurovision Song Contest, and it will not be broadcast on RTÉ, after organiser the European Broadcasting Union confirmed today that Israel will be allowed to take part … Spain’s national broadcaster RTVE and the Netherlands’ AvroTros also announced that they would boycott the contest.”

Maybe we should rename it to the Genocidevision Song Contest?

Now… any more European countries with a backbone?

www.rte.ie/entertainment/2025/1204/1547300-rte-to-boycott-eurovision-song-contest-over-israel/
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sijmen @sijmen@shrimp.vijf.life
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@aral
Germany, a major Eurovision backer, had signalled it would not take part if Israel was barred. Germany's culture minister Wolfram Weimer told the Bild newspaper he welcomed the decision.

"Israel belongs to the Eurovision Song Contest like Germany belongs to Europe," he said.
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Errant is bat @errant@glaceon.social
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@sijmen @aral Don't be so harsh to yourself, Germany. But then again...
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Aral Balkan @aral@mastodon.ar.al
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@errant @sijmen Yeah, hey, we’ve all armed a genocide or two in our time, after all, right?
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Jordan Biserkov @jbiserkov@mas.to
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@aral @errant @sijmen
After World War 2, Germany was supposed to de-nazify, but due to an ink stain on the plan, the "de" was interpreted as a ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code.
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Toni M. @mad@freiburg.social
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@sijmen @aral

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Aral Balkan @aral@mastodon.ar.al
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@sijmen Deutschbags.
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Gondor @grootinside@troet.cafe
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@aral @sijmen
The current gov of germany is the least gov representing the people here in decades. They all are mad inkompetent and work unlawfully rather for the interest of companies, in fact preparing this country to become home for a fascist regime again.
Explains a lot.

Just sayin'.😒
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Loohoosaher @hwll@sunny.garden
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@sijmen wow just seriously on the wrong side of history so bad, again. So embarrassing, DE
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