It was still live on televisionin the Netherlands. Not a full boycot

They should send Laibach. Given that they have a taste for kitsch, I think they would even be up for it.

**crying in Slovene**

Also me and my friend in university researched votes in eurovision. We analyzed lots of parameters to figure out on what people vote. Out of three parameter groups (song, artist, country), people and countries mostly vote for a country.

And even more useful than having friendly countries is to not have unfriendly countries.

So having lots of and strong connections in this graph is awful:

The Delaware of Europe.

I wouldn’t say that upholding European values by boycotting a giant PR event that is being abused to normalise genocide is exactly an achievement of “nothing notable”.

The main purpose of the ESC is to promote some generic mass produced, bland, and radio broadcast compatible Swedish pop music anyway, so potentially interesting participants from other, especially smaller countries, unfortunately get far too little notice.