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Re:Catalan parliament declares independence from Spain by pakitan on Friday October 27, 2017 @02:12PM (#15570860)
That's not how referendums work. Are you saying that if tomorrow you and few buddies decided to set up a new country, on a land you own, via a "referendum", the government should just go with it?
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Re:Catalan parliament declares independence from Spain by smilekzs on Friday October 27, 2017 @02:27PM (#15570963)
More like you and a couple millions of buddies?
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Re:Catalan parliament declares independence from Spain by pakitan on Friday October 27, 2017 @02:56PM (#15571185)
Why does the number matter? Lots of people here (including the person I was replying to) talk about the "right thing" to do, not about military power. If it's the right thing to allow for millions of peoples to secede, why isn't it the right thing for me and few buddies to secede? Are we inferior in some way? Where is the cutoff? Is it ok to secede if we are 1000 people? 10K? 100K?
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Re:Catalan parliament declares independence from Spain by coryfklein on Friday October 27, 2017 @02:46PM (#15571100)
At exactly which number does democracy allow a group of people to secede?
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