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Re:Western news about China depends on intrepid Chinese ‘new... by CoolGuySteve on Thursday October 12, 2017 @07:39AM (#15457236)
> Quebec has repeatedly voted to secede from Canada.

I believe your point may be refuted by the fact that you state outright lies like this whopper here.

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Re:Western news about China depends on intrepid Chinese ‘new... by y4mi on Thursday October 12, 2017 @10:12AM (#15458031)
seriously? it took me 1 second to google and confirm its truth. or is 1995 too long ago for kids these days?

also, refuting one argument does not shoot down unrelated arguments.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_referendum,_1995

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Re:Western news about China depends on intrepid Chinese ‘new... by CoolGuySteve on Thursday October 12, 2017 @12:56PM (#15459383)
They did not vote to succeed and there was only one referendum.
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Re:Western news about China depends on intrepid Chinese ‘new... by y4mi on Thursday October 12, 2017 @01:43PM (#15459734)
I understood the GP argument as "having voted on the issue", not "having voted to leave". The former implies that a significant portion of the population want independence.

and i'm not sure i understand you correctly, but the very first sentence in the wikipedia link says that the 1995 referendum was the second one... this [1] was the first.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebec_referendum,_1980

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