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After trying and failing to steal Eurovision last year, Israel came back with a plan to rig the competition at the second attempt, but outrageously it was foiled by Austria. Israel wanted to take Eurovision like it was a house owned by Palestinians, but Austria had the audacity to win Israel's prize and it did not even resort to cheating. Truly, this is the worst thing Austria has done since it gave the world Hitler.

Eurovision seemed to be going so well when organisers hid the fact everyone hates Israel by replacing boos with AI-generated cheers. You know those divorced men who can't get a girlfriend so they hire someone to be their date? It was kind'a like that. Israel paid for a fake audience so it didn't look like a massive loser.

Obviously, a fake audience wasn't going to be enough to win, but Israel had other tricks up its sleeve. It was supposed to keep the next part of its plan secret, but the people who brag about their war crimes on TikTok aren't the brightest bunch. Israelis couldn't help boasting of their heroic efforts which involved using multiple credit cards to vote hundreds of times in different countries. Israel has demanded an investigation into how Austria won, even though Israel cheated.

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[–] makyo@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I posted this in another thread:

I'm really REALLY curious about the shenanigans that lead to the Israel act racking up a crazy number of 12s from the public voting last night. I don't have the numbers but I also don't remember so many acts getting 0s from the public as yesterday's event.

Considering her performance was mediocre (the judges sure thought so as well) and the public perception isn't all positive, especially amongst the kind of people I'd imagine would be the largest part of the Eurovision audience - it sure seems like some kind of leaning on the scales was likely. I think it'd be worth looking into anyway.