jsdario

Voting is not necessarily democratic. Hitler won in democracy. Respecting minorities and not playing the victim card is more democratic indeed! There are many republicans dead under catalan descending military charges, all over the peninsula. I don't think being born in Catalonia makes you less fascist.

But you can always play the victim card ans act like history never happened.

Can't agree more. Plus the developer edition is just great.

I may agree it's really hard, but the response is accurate. It is still possible. These kind of restrictions exist to defend people of tyranny.

The same restrictions exists in Catalonian Parliament for things such as changing the "Estatut". It is not right for a simple majority to enforce their will over the people their opposition represent. Therefore the referendum is not legal, nor legitimate.

In any democracy or lawful state, independence movements are just a matter of nationalistic feelings. It's normal they are a tricky thing. They do not obey the principles of solidarity (in this case) or rational thinking. They live mainly from either supremacist or victimization arguments.

It is completely feasible. In fact Spain was the project of many different kingdoms (or "nations" by modern standards): Basque, Aragon/Catalan, Galician and Castilian.

Not only that but many modern leftist political parties advocate for self determination freedom within our constitution.

So the fact that the Catalan parliament with a simple majority of separatists are claiming unilateral referendum of independence in a free country is just to gather momentum.

Catalan parliament has deployed a referendum law with +1 MPs, breaking regional Catalan law, silencing opposition and its own constituent powers. The referendum law states that any positive result from the referendum will result in a declaration of independence, with or without agreement with the central government.

Trying not to be get too biased, I'd conclude that Spanish central government is trying to protect the rule of law, state-wide or regional-wide, while also protecting those who didn't vote for separatists parties, which in 2015 elections were 52%.

Seems more accurate to say crypto-nationalistic

How is this "letter" has been winning so many "points"? There are no references to the real world, it could be any angry ex employee talking about any city with a relatively young startup ecosystem.