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Re:Catalan parliament declares independence from Spain by johannes1234321 on Friday October 27, 2017 @10:22AM (#15568564)
If a government renders the government irrelevant they take away their own legitimation.

Sure in past that append a common term for that is "revolution" or "coup".

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Re:Catalan parliament declares independence from Spain by fixermark on Friday October 27, 2017 @10:37AM (#15568734)
... and Catalan doesn't have a military position to enforce its influence.

The United States was an exception, but it was an exception borne of geographic distance and fighting against a parent already beset by its adjacent neighbors. Catalan will have no such military advantages if people try to settle this dispute via civil war.

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