Context: After the 2017 referendum unilateraly held by the autonomous government (including spanish police operations to dismantle polling stations), the catalan parliment held a tense session set to declare independence according to the referendum results. The session was live-streamed on giant screens for pro-independence citizens to watch the debate. There were many negotiations just before the session, so nobody was sure what were they planning to anounce. The first image pictures the reaction of the public the moment the catalan president declared the independence of Catalonia. A few seconds after that, he himself anunced that the declaration was “put on hold”, and the second picture shows the public reaction.
Excellent meme template
That was such a meme in Spain back then,the referedum was ilegal in Spain,sedition is a crime and no one in the word recognized the process yet this people somehow though “hey we did it we are a country”
Yay! Let’s cheer for not letting people vote for self-determination!
Spanish government reactions and arrests were disproportionate and anti democratic….oh wait It’s a
I read California and was very confused.
If Kosovo can be independent, so can Catalonia.
Hah, good. Fuck them.
Hah, good. Fuck them.
Is this from the illegal referendum after which the leader guy fled and took political asylum in Belgium?
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What are we looking at here? What’s the subtext?
When was this?
Is this another bot farming karma?
Europe will be the Tomb of Nationalism
tl;dr government undermines will of its people
Context: After the 2017 referendum unilateraly held by the autonomous government (including spanish police operations to dismantle polling stations), the catalan parliment held a tense session set to declare independence according to the referendum results. The session was live-streamed on giant screens for pro-independence citizens to watch the debate. There were many negotiations just before the session, so nobody was sure what were they planning to anounce. The first image pictures the reaction of the public the moment the catalan president declared the independence of Catalonia. A few seconds after that, he himself anunced that the declaration was “put on hold”, and the second picture shows the public reaction.
Excellent meme template
That was such a meme in Spain back then,the referedum was ilegal in Spain,sedition is a crime and no one in the word recognized the process yet this people somehow though “hey we did it we are a country”
Yay! Let’s cheer for not letting people vote for self-determination!
Spanish government reactions and arrests were disproportionate and anti democratic….oh wait It’s a
I read California and was very confused.
If Kosovo can be independent, so can Catalonia.
Hah, good. Fuck them.
Hah, good. Fuck them.
Is this from the illegal referendum after which the leader guy fled and took political asylum in Belgium?