In 2022 when Russia invaded Ukraine, all of Europe spontaneously voted for Ukraine in ESC to show their support. Spontaneously.
Last year Israel, Imma say it, manipulated the voting process to try and make it seem like all of Europe stood behind their heinous genocide war crimes, which is pretty damn far from the truth. (They should, of course, never have been allowed to compete either that year, or this year, but 🤷‍♀️)
Had they succeeded with that shit, that propaganda schtick shit, in lieu of a better word, this year, too…
I mean, this year, 2026, their song was at least, almost good, last year it was a complete meh, and yeah, Ukraine’s song in 2022, was perhaps not the very best song that year, but, everyone knew all the votes came from the heart.
Last year everyone felt the weaponized bot farm, frecken, government controlled, attempt to skew the public attitude to condone their war crimes. At least to give the appearance of it. And no one bought it.
This world that we now live in, where it is possible for governments, or worse, your garden variety billionaire, to flood our information systems, all systems actually, even boring bureaucratic ones, with whatever crap story they want to tell and make it seem mainstream, when it isn’t?
Humanity deserves better.
And don’t ever tell me art and entertainment, or sports for that matter, isn’t political.
The manipulation sucks. Balls.
(Edit; spelling and grammar.)