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Re:Is it time to retire the .gb top level domain? by argentier on Monday November 21, 2022 @11:20AM (#33694265)
There's this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918_Irish_general_election

The IRA derived their 'legitimacy' from it.

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Re:Is it time to retire the .gb top level domain? by iso1631 on Monday November 21, 2022 @11:39AM (#33694531)
The one where the votes for unionists in Ulster outweighed nationalists 2:1?
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Re:Is it time to retire the .gb top level domain? by argentier on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @11:48AM (#33707794)
Ulster didn't exist as a polity at the time.
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Re:Is it time to retire the .gb top level domain? by disgruntledphd2 on Monday November 21, 2022 @11:48AM (#33694679)
That's an election, not a referendum.

And to be quite frank, you are probably thinking of the Provisional IRA when you put legitimacy in quotes, where as this was the original IRA, who basically have nothing in common with the Provos (as they were called when I were a lad) except the name.

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Re:Is it time to retire the .gb top level domain? by argentier on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @11:48AM (#33707789)
That's an interesting debate to have, definitely.
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