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I agree Jew hatred isn't a thing among Thais and is extreme in Malaysia but it would have been a journalistic error not to mention the foreign nationality whatever it is.

Could easily be both.

I realize another one your sarcastic games but nationality of a foreign crime victim is a standard thing to mention in journalism anywhere.

That's the jury part of the vote. Olly got some jury votes but on the global public vote he got nothing. You can vote up to 20 times. He got some public votes of course but in no country were there enough to add up to even one point based on the system used (watch video). So based on the rules, he indeed got zero votes. In my view, the drama of the voting system for the grand final is one the best parts of the Eurovision entertainment, if not the best. I don't feel like watching it again but I think that Olly was the ONLY entrant to get zero on the global public vote this year. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

Enjoy your revisionist history.

You can't vote for your own country.

That's the CULT factor. Facts and reality of no importance.

I liked Spain and also Norway which was not well received at all. I totally reject your assertion that "too heterosexual" songs can't win. The Croatia song that almost won wasn't LGBT at all. Also France did really well (though for some reason did nothing for me). Spaceman UK previously which would have won if not for the Ukraine war before wasn't LGBT at all, nor was the Ukraine song. Israel this year also not LGBT at all had a really good song and would have had a chance to win in a regular year. Yeah sure LGBT related songs do win at Eurovision SOME YEARS, but by no means does a song need to be that to have a shot.

I've noticed. The chants for genocide of Jews. The total ignorance of history. The failure to mention October 7 or the hostages. The way they terrorize Jewish students on campuses and an innocent young Israeli lady in Malmo at Eurovision. Horrible pro Hamas rallies.

Standard use of the word thanks, but I get it, as an extremist Israel demonizer, you're attracted to any conspiracy theory that paints Israel in the worse possible light.

Yet it did well. I think 6th under Israel's 5th. Without the anti Israel protests and the ejection of the Netherlands, I have no idea who would have won, but I'm sure Israel would have placed higher, competing also with the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Croatia. I think Croatia might have had the best song but I'm very happy Switzerland won not because they them is non-binary but because they them is such a lovable positive sweetheart and Switzerland is long overdue and being in a historically "neutral" country seems to be what ESC needs now.

Perhaps related, perhaps not, but the non-binary "Crown the Witch" show from Ireland was in my opinion truly horrible in its own way (but nothing like the porn fever dream of Olly). Tastes are subjective and that's part of the big fun of the contest and the drama of the voting. Elephants in the room but the non LGBT topic related ejection of the popular Dutch entry (justified or not) and the atrocious way the very talented Israeli entry was treated by the presumably rather "Queers for Palestine" friendly audience all added up to the most cluster f of an ESC I've ever seen, yet ironically the quality of the songs in the final was higher than usual. Some people seem to think the ESC is seriously or permanently damaged. I don't agree. It will go on and I expect somehow more normally LGBT next year!

Whatever Gaza was or wasn't before (though not an open air prison) that's rather academic now thanks to the Hamas terrorist attack on October 7.

Things change.

I never said that LGBT "owned" Eurovision but it still is a premiere LGBT cultural event whether you like it / admit it, or not. That doesn't mean that non LGBT are excluded in any way, but if you're an anti LGBT bigot, I would suggest going elsewhere.

Not an open air prison. You've got all the extremist Israel demonization points. Hard to have any kind of discussion with such extremists.

It's not a gay or straight question. He got zero votes from the public, a public that is watching a premiere LGBT cultural event. I already went over this. The zero votes was not about being anti gay.

Of course ir would be insane to testify but wouldn't it be super yummy delicious if he did!

You took the title too literally. Obviously an act can't be too gay for Eurovision. But my argument is that it was too sleazy sexualized for Eurovision.

Anyway it's a fact that Eurovision has evolved largely into a LGBT cultural event. Like it or not I like it. Others don't. Not every show needs to be heteronormative pablum. That said it's mostly been about high camp, silliness, male and female divas, highlighting different cultures as well which is not so gay. What Olly did going so sleazy was an outlier! I don't recall a Eurovision act like that before. He tried something new and it bombed. I doubt what he did will be repeated. So not to worry. Eurovision as a LGBT cultural extravaganza will continue and I predict Switzerland will be less of a cluster f year than this one.

I'm sure they have lovely eggs.

Can you be more vague?

Putin doesn't want peace. He wants to erase Ukraine and make it a slave state of Russ.

Ukraine was headed towards losing thanks to the maga fascists in the US stalling aid for six months but now they have a chance to turn things around.

Putin has something to lose if he pushes his own country too hard in terms of economic pain and casualties if he starts mobilizing the Moscow St Pete crowd.