Reminder: in life you can and will fuck up, sometimes catastrophically. But you will never ever have a “erasing 68 years of credibility, love, cultural impact and devotion over a moroccanoil sponsorship” level of fuck up.
it fucking breaks my heart hearing käärijä go "...but i wasn't the best :(" when he literally scored the second most points EVER in eurovision public vote, second only to ukraine in 2022, like sweetie NO LISTEN, you WERE the best actually
anyway remember that sweden colonized and/or ruled finland for 600 years and that both countries still occupy and exploit sámi land.
edit: just to make clear in this post since people apparently read this in a way i didn’t mean it (probably my fault, i sometimes assume things are implicitly understood when they are not, and i wrote this in the middle of the night) my intention was NOT to imply that sweden should be excluded from esc due to its historical occupation of finland. that part was a comment on the relation between the countries and was a reaction to the posts i kept seeing pitting sweden and finland against each other in a way i found very interesting because history informs how people relate to each other. there have been more intelligent additions on that topic in othe reblogs of this post. what i did mean to say about exclusion from esc however is that sweden and also finland (and norway) should be excluded on the basis of their continued occupation and exploitation of sámi land (and also culture for tourism reasons), and that’s why i emphasized sápmi specifically in the reblog.