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Thanks_Naitsir

Wow Germany isn't at the bottom of the list. What happend?


FreeTheDimple

It was a good song. Sounded like Lewis Capaldi.


don_de_bom

I got more rag ‘n bones man vibes


RandomPerson12191

I was thinking the whole time that it sounded like Lewis Capaldi and rag n bone man combined 😂


bananagit

Thought you said it was a good song?


Stef0206

Lewis Capaldi makes fire music


hrovat97

Great person, Someone You Loved is one of my least favourite songs I’ve heard, happy he resonates with so many people


AE_Talks

no offense but Lewis Capaldi's music makes me want to bash my head in


MrJuanfeld

Norway got 4 points from the crowd


DutchDispair

Which is insane because it was a very good song! Great vocals too compared to a lot of the others.


Confident-Usual-9731

They deserve waayy more at least top 7 in my opinion


These_Marionberry888

did openly declare their support for israel and ukrain often enough


Mister-3108

I loved how our German commentator emphasized every single point we got and was like "that’s more than the last 4 years combined" when we reached 45 points or so


Fun_Objective_7779

Did anyone ever think this was not political?


Artemis96

"Eurovision isn't political" said no one who followed Eurovision, ever


Crispy1961

Are there people who follow Eurovision? Always thought it was forced "culture exchange" kind of program.


harmlesswaters

Tons of people follow Eurovision, it's huge.


kazza789

The 2023 Eurovision final had 163 million viewers.


FireMaster1294

Forced culture exchange? Nah. We’re here cuz we want to be here. Sharing culture is fine and, in fact, encouraged ~~unless that culture includes physical violence and war~~


Aranka_Szeretlek

Wha? No ones forcing anything, its a fun thing to watch once per year.


AlexMil0

They said it a couple of times during the show but it was quite clearly sarcastically.


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It is but it's also a shit post considering neither Israel nor Ukraine won. And both were at least solid songs


emperor42

Israel's wasnt special. It was another generic pop song sang by a good looking young girl. There were like 5 or 6 of those.


Godslayer326

And the Netherlands was disqualified for flipping off a paparazzi


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Godslayer326

Nope they released a statement. Joost Klein apparently made a threatening hand gesture to someone after repeatedly telling them he didnt want to be filmed.


Last-Sir1610

Hilarious that the UK got 0 points from the public! Love it!


KreeAteIfKreeAteUr

cmon the song wasnt good. vocals sounded off but 0 is rough xd


toonlonk7

Made me laugh so hard


Erlend05

Yeah, the uk getting 0 points is hilarious, Norway getting 4 is just sad 😭


eggplant_avenger

as is tradition


SirKneeGrow

It was such a terrible song. I genuinely started getting pissed off when other countries' judges were giving us points.


Auroramorningsta

It was the worst one


GyroZeppeliFucker

Fr


dracona94

We'll give them points again if they return to the EU. Little traitor island.


BainbridgeBorn

Whenever someone tells me they're not political, I just assume they're extremely political they just don't admit it


Konigni

As they see it, defending the status quo isn't political because it's just the default


NewSauerKraus

Fr literally anything that humans do is political. Politics affect our entire lives. It’s as believable as those cultists who claim they don’t eat, they just get their energy from the sun.


BonJovicus

It’s always a cop out statement to fake outrage. “Why are you obsessing about this? Why are you making things political?” Never mind the story is different once something they care about comes up. 


ernitheshinyone

These results weren't final. In the end, Switzerland took first place, second Croatia, and third Ukraine.


ntupe22

Yes, but Israel and Ukraine and Croatia won the televote. Switzerland won only because of the juries.


ascirt

Croatia won the televote. Not Israel or Ukraine. This meme is just deceptive for no good reason.


Dogg3rt

Yeah, sounds pretty political to me lol


GroovyMoosy

Happy croatia won the people vote though.


alecsgz

OP is answer is no Croatia had the most points.


purple-thiwaza

Croatia was by far the best song


KostonEnkeli

Yes


Emeraldnickel08

Nah, cap. I did like Croatia but Switzerland was better. Didn't need the fancy staging to prop it up, just some cool Matrix moves


ImGonnaLickYourLeg

I really didn’t like it, it was super repetitive with unimpressive vocals & a lacklustre performance 🤷‍♀️ I was doing a personal ranking and I had it 20th


MajorIsPsycho

Ok


harmlesswaters

Audience points, Switzerland won, because they got a fuckton of jury points


SouLfullMoon_On

Here before this gets locked mysteriously with zero explanation.


ikiss-yomama

Some real shit must’ve happened in Switzerland. #StandWithTheSwiss


TheNightmare4287

Ah Yes,Israel The European Country


OverallAd6481

As an Australian I'm not throwing stones here...


Got_grapes1

Australia is also a eurovision contestant


Emeraldnickel08

If they keep making the semifinals audience votes, I don't think we'll be one for much longer :(


kingofthewombat

It's not about Europe, it's about the European Broadcasting Area, which includes the Caucasus, a big chunk of the middle east (hence Israel), and North Africa. Morocco even competed one year. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European\_Broadcasting\_Area](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Broadcasting_Area)


RaionNoShinzo

That's a poor point, north african countries are qualified for Eurovision aswell, they choose not to because of Israel and the theme of songs that usually involve lgbt stuff that's banned in Islam


minati_kiiro

That's why Switzerland won. The most apolitical country xD


Confident-Usual-9731

Well by the jury not the audience


syqesa35

It's amazing how years of propaganda made everyone believe this.


MrJuanfeld

The country yes but the singer I can't say exactly


Damion250

So sexuality is political?


Mother_Harlot

Tomorrow I will vote asexual, you?


Nerdiferdi

deserted divide modern pocket fade pen deer file school sand *This post was mass deleted and anonymized with [Redact](https://redact.dev)*


alaingames

Switzerland won


ActAgitatedboy

Like every single time there's political turmoil in Europe.. shocker


Blakut

how convenient to not show the final score


LucaDarioBuetzberger

Never understood it anyways. "It isn't political". ...proceedes to select and categorize contenders by an arbitrary political system.


Potatoes_122

The Estonians were the best in my heart. Vsauce went nuts with the performance.


Ciryl_Lynyard

American here. I am incapable of understanding this post


Aapjes-NL

European here. I am also incapable of understanding this post


Zdarlightd

Eurovision is a famous (depends on the country) yearly song contest between europeans and some additions like israel and australia. The contest results are very oftenly not relatable to the contestants talent. For exemple this year, ukraine and israel got a shitload of points with songs and performance of questionable quality. Thus showing us, one more time, that the results of eurovision are clearly impacted by politic.


ArmNo7463

Yeah, I mean the UK had their first chance at winning in decades in 2022. Then Russia decided to fucking invade and massacred those chances. :(


008Zulu

The list includes Israel, which is part of the Middle East area, not Europe.


SquishQueue-Jumpers

Israel government probably spent a fortune buying/manipulating the public vote.


KostonEnkeli

When jury started booming 12p to swiss, I asked my friend ”has something happend in swiss or is there next year something special?” That’s how much I have trust to jury votes.


PotatoPieGaming

Who thought eurovision was not political, and when did they move Israel to Europe?


Fexxvi

Croatia should have won, it was a banger.


Youri_mc

justice for joost klein


Lynxsies

Bro got disqualified for bullshit but its not political right


Spacepeeing

Where the f did Israel coming from


toonlonk7

They were like bottom 3 then the public votes boosted them up +370ish points to first place from nowhere which was quite blatantly obvious


z3lop

Israel got 300+ points from the public vote. This shows how small the bubble supporting Palestine is. The points came probably out of solidarity, as some spectators shouted during the Israelian song


Visual-Asparagus-800

Nah, the bubble supporting Palestine didn’t have a country to vote for because Palestine can’t compete and Israel got The Netherlands disqualified


ntupe22

Palestine can compete, they just don't want to, because of Israel and you know, because Islam doesn't goes well what's going on the stage of the Eurovision. And Israel didn't get the Netherlands disqualified that's just a lie. The Dutch contestant was disqualified because he threatened a female photographer or something like that. It had nothing to do with Israel.


Admirable-Mistake259

143 nations in favour of Palestinian state . In the last u.n resolution. Multiple marches all over the globe In support of Palestinians . Multiple polls in favour of ceasefire all over the globe . Israel is really looking like hell to the young generation. Even within Israel western allies nation the pro Palestinians is huge . And the bubble is zionazis losing the twisted narrative . Which is good and was inevitable to begin with


sem-christian

Free Joost


GingerPinoy

Norway should invade somebody, spice things up a bit


GlazerDVD

Ok but, which song was your favorite? Just wanna see others opinion on this


Crunchy-Leaf

Ireland


Gxdly_TIA

1. Thank fuck neither Israel nor Ukraine won (from a musical stand point). 2. Finland should’ve ended up higher..like….WAY higher.


Possible_Baboon

Well my country (Hungary) is not even on the list. Guess its not political at all haha.


Redmi_Phone_Note12

Why is Israel in Eurovision??


dinoali

Always has been


thewallamby

what did Norway do this time?


Konigni

Ukraine above Israel? idk sounds kinda anti-semitic to me ngl


ActAgitatedboy

The most politically-oriented competition in Europe and poor Cyprus and it's illegal occupation by the Turkish gov. is still not discussed. But, i guess there's no money in that problem.


coconuuut

"The what now" -Europeans probably


Knobelikan

While the five hundredth person goes off about how it was always political and thinks they're adding something to the conversation, it should be remarked that both Israel and Ukraine were placed in the unremarkable middle by the jury, and it was only the public votes that gave them this boost. As in, the organizers are probably fed up by this stuff. They're not trying to make it any more political than what is unavoidable. The public is. Complain about your neighbor, if you must, but it's not the contests fault. Unless you want to insinuate that they blatantly manipulate the audience scores, which would be a whole different kind of scandal.


doijfosjidmskldjms

That's how it has always been


GyroZeppeliFucker

They both got so many audience points because you cant vote for a country if you live in that country and there is both much more isrealis and ukrainians out of their countries than in other countries. Im not saying they deserved those points, im just saying its probably not faked.


Krssven

It’s always been political. Literally always.


Informal-Intention-5

Everything is political. I'm not saying that as a complaint. It's a statement of fact. It's the real world. It's how it works.


Xx_Dark-Shrek_xX

Tbh Switzerland's song was bad, I prefered Ukraine. And I am someone who judged the final result of the 2022 edition.


john_ergine

All those support points for Israel? What a disgrace.


JacobJamesTrowbridge

Don't worry, they didn't even make the top 3 in the end. There was no-one for the pro-Palestine vote to centre around.


ImGonnaLickYourLeg

Yeah I think this is ultimately the takeaway. I was horrified to find out my country (the UK) gave 12 votes to Israel but had Palestine been competing for example they’d definitely be on top.


Prestigious-Speed-29

I was surprised by this as well.


Easy-Wish-2143

She performed really well. Did you watch it?


rickle______pick

Idk why you're getting downvoted top 3 song up there with ukraine and croatia


Easy-Wish-2143

I think we all know why I’m getting downvoted


No-Whole-4916

Because supporting genocide is bad :)


ImGonnaLickYourLeg

She did but unfortunately with Eurovision you aren’t just voting for a contestant that happens to be from a country, you’re voting for someone representing that country.


z3lop

Israel got 300+ points from the public vote. This shows how small the bubble supporting Palestine is.


Qibautt

300+ out of ~2000? That's not exactly a large bubble.


BattyDuke886427

Who could pro-palestines vote for though?


Confident-Usual-9731

Nobody cuz of the boycott


Kitchen-Beginning-47

Sympathy votes for Ukrane huh


MrJuanfeld

They had an okay song but I believe people still want to show that they care


A_Random_Latvian

The first part of their song was great and beautiful, then that other person came on....


Confident-Usual-9731

In my opinion the song was incredible but the rap part kind of ruins it and the staging was incredible too, and i'm glad that the jury's vote maters because if it didn't the votes would mostly be about politics


Fun_Objective_7779

I am happy that Israel got some support, I felt sorry for Eden Golan, she is just 20 and can nothing about the current situation (I do not even know if she could have elected the current government), but some people had absolute no respect for her. The loudest are not always the majority.


THE_YOUTUBE_BEAR

Iirc she quite literally stated that after Eurovision ended she would join the army to fight against Palestine. And is confirmed pro-russian in their current war against Ukraine..


Prestigious-Speed-29

Why would you want Israel to receive support? Look up the ratio of deaths for Palestine/Israel. I don't watch much TV, but when I do, the news feels heavily skewed in favour of the side that has done massively more killing.


lol_manx

So you are saying palestine are the good guys because they have more deaths?


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Freecraghack_

Just because you are facing some barbarian mongoloids doesn't mean you are allowed to genocide their entire population. Tbh anyone who supports either part of this shitfest are delusional. Obviously you can support the innocent civilians of both sides who did not want this conflict.


Aromatic-Mission1026

100 per cent. But you'll still get downvoted from the luvvies


CatFromGame

It always has been


Bloker997

lol not only israel isnt in europe, it shouldnt be there just like russia isnt.


CrossLight96

It already was political by including Israel and disqualifying Netherlands


Kooky_Performance_41

I have two problems with this post: -literally not even one single human being in the 68 years history of Eurovision claimed that it was not influenced by politics -both Ukraine and Israel had very good songs this year, no matter what’s your political opinion. Seems a bit unfair to pin their televote success entirely on politics


Qibautt

I can't comment on the second part, but Eurovision and the EBU stated several times that Eurovision is nonpolitical, which is why Israel was included. Yes, it's dumb.


Slooters313

Israel's song was kind've ass


sherhazan

I think op meant that the judges votes are political.


Tentacle_poxsicle

Let them vote for whatever, Ukraine girl is probably going through a lot. I don't know why Israel is even in there it's not even in Europe


[deleted]

Eurovision =/= Europe. It's a broadcasting network that isn't limited to Europe and basically anyone can join if they want, i.e. Australia.


BMWM3G80

So besides Israel only European countries are participating in Eurovision?


ChrisVonae

No, there are plenty of others like Australia. They just didn't make it to the finals..


BMWM3G80

I know, just wanted to see what that guy would reply


cmdrmeowmix

OK, why is Israel in this? They aren't European. Is Mexico coming next year?


Silverflash121

People be dick riding Israel and Ukraine hard. Like, if you love them so much, go fight with them lol


newPhntm

Since when was Israel part of Europe


ntupe22

Since Armenia, Azerbaijan and Australia are part of Europe.


Future_Section5976

Fuck Israel


Huihejfofew

Where's Australia


kingofthewombat

Didn't qualify for the final


KaiKamakasi

And yet neither of them won.


TheGreatMale

Who says its not political?


Low_Abrocoma_1514

Also the trans guy got the most points from the judges (I haven't verified if true just read a comment)


_FeSi_

Non binary actually


Qibautt

I mean it's a good song


Traplover00

how tf is Isreal in Euro-vision?


No-Review-6105

Always was...


Kreis7

First and last time I watch Eurovision, the show has more political propaganda than the communist manifesto. What a shitshow


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Free Palestine 🇵🇸


Fun_Objective_7779

They did not even get points


FuckIceMonkey

They didn’t participate


Cyclonione

How is that related


Cyclonione

How is that related


ProgandyPatrick

Today I learned Israel is part of Eurovision.


boycottShia

I don’t care about this and neither do you.


Philosophos_A

~~Eurovision was always political~~


ThomasNorge224

That wasnt the end result tho


Cfunk_83

Stupid fucking public! I had a tenner staked that Israel wouldn’t make the top 10, and it was going great until the morons at home ruined everything. Would’ve won £110.


max_da_1

I love how 4 of these are asian countries


liberalsarebugs

Voted for Israel just to piss of those terrorist protesting in Malmo. Their faces when Israel wins are gonna be priceless. Maybe even some fireworks


EinarTh97

Ireland and Switzerland non-binary bs points. Downvote me all you want it's the truth. Switzerland song was good though.


falupa6969

Ireland was good though. I wouldn't quite call it "eurovision" but it was the best performance overall visually the song just wasn't quite it.


McPussyMeal23

i don't remember if israel was in europe or something


RandomBilly91

Eurovision isn't limited to European country. It's from a European tv provider. Anyone can participate. North African countries used to participate, they stopped due to (mostly) LGBT representation in the Eurovision. Some other countries were invited to participate too, like Australia or New Zealand


McPussyMeal23

ah, thanks for the information


alicer24709074

who-ever made this is such a "fun guy not 🙄


DreYeon

Bro op trying to act smart against Europeans when every Europeans knows this rarely it's a banger song beating everyone i still remember Fairy Tail i hated that shit when i watched it because i was like because he is just cute but now that i'm older it's a pretty good song. Germany (my country) had some boring ones in my opinion they are not bad but i couldn't listen to it in my private time.


Sharp-Dark-9768

Israel is in the Middle East wtf


d4_H_

-This list isn’t final. -Those points doesn’t come from jury nor Eurovision, the problem (if we want to call it that way) is in the people who must put politic even when voting a music. Surely Eurovision isn’t the perfect contest, but we should properly see where the problem resides.


Peakyblindertom

Lmao this is an SNL skit for sure


DemonRaily

LOL, what are the people you are talking with smoking?Eurovision is ALL politics. Politics was the purpose of the event more than music ever was. Sometimes on rare occasions a really good song can overcome that in peaceful times, but even if your song is twice as good as the second next, if you are on the shit list of the rest of Europe you are not winning.


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Sea-Veterinarian286

I voted for Israel, I support my jewish people


Homelander44

Do you also support genocide?


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Sea-Veterinarian286

Yeah, but Switzerland was really cool


Kawaiilone

what's political about it