ankaragonthedark.bsky.social
That black dragon on the map.
Computer geek since the time of Speccy, artist with delusions of grandeur, data wrangler, Mass Effect enjoyer, Pirate-adjacent. Use any pronouns you like, including "that weirdo". Languages: Greek and English.
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Τι λέει το τσόκαρο...
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We should be degoogling and stop using US of A computer applications. And we should also be more careful in picking intimate partners or doing risque things. Karim Khan fell also victim to a honey trap and he should know better.
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It's like thinking that outlawing an illness will make that illness disappear. It won't. It will just make the ill less likely to get treatment or help.
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We need to bring back communal forms of child rearing in a modern style. State sponsored, socially supervised child care facilities, public health services prioritizing expectant mothers, child protection services that actually support vulnerable families instead of kidnapping their children...
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I mean, hell, look at the Olympics. People make a massive fuss over trans women competing in athletics, a ban is introduced, and who gets targeted? Cis women of color who had the audacity to beat white women (see: Caster Semenya or Imane Khelif)
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I wanted to visit UK, but being middle aged with a not very feminine face? Not as long as these laws are active.
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BTW, both of the shot persons were not actually Israelis. One of them was a fundie Christian Zionist that had volunteered for the IDF war criminals. And the fact that the murderer survived hints that it might be a false flag operation- if he was the real deal, he would be riddled with bullets.
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Well, you know, they are the same party anyway. The barely covert fascists of the IDU. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interna...
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Οπως τα σοβαροφανή Μακελειά Liberal και Manifesto.
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A note on the coffee guy: he might seem independant on paper, but he has collaborated with huge names connected with Warner, like the little green man, Little Big and the phenomenon Charli XCX. He is probably more influential, connected and talented than perceived.
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The ethnic cleansers will get their victory once things settle down, one way or another. I can almost guarantee that the contestants will be ethnic passing and probably contain a civilized, tamed Arab "pet".
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Next year, the show will be more straight friendly and family friendly. The current winner was alphabet nation, but he was so clean and passing that none would be the wiser. The USA are a huge audience target and EBU might have to adapt to incoming obscenity laws.
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So, what will happen next year if Trump won't hit that button in a moment of demented delirium? EBU will make their audits and will probably find nothing suspicious enough to guarantee action. The rogue state broadcaster might get some scolding and a promise that they'll get their award later.
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And, btw, because of national competitions, a compromise was struck between Panik Records and the Greek State, possibly because of the rogue agent in 2024. I won't share my second theory, but I couldn't help but notice one recent former greek ESC artist missing from the commentary guests.
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Same thing happened this year too, but the national astroturfer and ethnic cleanser succeeded a bit too well in skewing the popular vote. See, there were more than one Warner kids this time in the contest. Yup, you guessed it. The coffee guy and the wildly charismatic (and media savvy) sexy lady.
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However, either way, mission was accomplished. The big label boy and the national astroturfer skewed and split the popular vote so well, that the juries managed to become kingmakers once more. And the very fandom that formerly didn't trust them, now looked up to them.
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Why we didn't notice? Because of contestant shenanigans. The national astroturfer's (and ethnic cleanser's) contestant was, by all accounts, neither charismatic nor affable.However, I cannot dismiss the possibility that she was an agent provocateur for another rogue state.
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In 2024, the same thing happened, but we were all too busy to notice. EBU bend themselves backwards to allow the national astroturfer to enter the competition, bracing themselves for the inevitable big label kid. And, you can guess who he was. He is owned by Virgin, btw.
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It's not very often discussed, but the charismatic little green man is owned by a big label, namely Warner. Please note that the third place, also by popular vote, was won by that genocidal ethnostate. However, that contestant was media savvy and, by all accounts, affable.
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So the EBU decided to retire the juries from the semi-finals. This would give the EBU the role of kingmaker in the finals. Let the state astroturfers and the big label astroturfers have at each other and then play kingmaker in the jury vote. This worked -not perfectly, but it worked- in 2023.
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There were discrepancies in ESC public votes in 2018, but the EBU probably kept them under the rug because a victory by a state-sponsored, state-astroturfed, contestant would be more tolerable to them than one by a music disk label, even a small one.
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When in 2022, Ukraine managed to sweep the public vote due to sympathy votes, the EBU was pretty alarmed. They had tolerated vote astroturfing by a certain, genocide artwashing actor -yes, that state, again- because it was one of their members but that sweeping public vote scared them.
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Something similar happened with some of the last Greek submissions to the contest,where diaspora girls and amateur nepo babies were chosen in order to avoid the Panic Studios mafia. IYKYK. This year, because of public voting, they couldn't. Keep a note on it, I might come back.
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What EBU wants is to have control at who the winner is. They are pretty ok with the money coming to them, as long as it isn't coming from huge, multinational disk labels, because these would come with obligations if you know what I mean. Obligations which the EBU wouldn't like.
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It's Starlink, but you might have a point. Some pretty weird results in elections all around the EU, too.
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Extended families and communal child rearing was the norm until very recently in human history. I would bet real money that the drop in fertility rates would coincide with the increase of fertile couples living in strictly nuclear arrangements.
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Nuclear families in the 50es, 60es and up to the 80es managed to function due to the remnants of extended families and "villages that took care of a child".
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This looks like an orchestrated campaign of robotic televoting. Aside from any political motivations, this manipulation is a massive risk for the gambling industry and for the public placing @eurovision.tv bets. The @ebu.ch and their televoting contractors #ONCE have a lot of explaining to do
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those people Don't Give A Shit about the songs or #Eurovision itself, they just care that it's ISRAEL that comes out on top.
EBU already sucks fucking ass for not banning that genocidal, child murdering country from the competition in the first place,