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Seems the actress who played Uhura just died, too.

RIP

https://www.mixedarticle.com/star-trek- ... assed-away

They have had their rights rolled back since a 2006 law granting them increased autonomy was challenged so they are being oppressed. They also have a strong sense of regional pride and a laundry list of past grievences. So you have made a lot of dubious claims in your previous posts, but I've decid...

That sounds like conquest to me and seeing as modern Spain uses many of the same territorial claims now as they did then, so I see no reason to consider the line between their 1714 conquest and now to have been broken. That is not called conquest, however. That is called losing a civil war and gett...

Thank you for the correction. I've been reading up on the recent events and I've seen secondhand commentary that has been, I think, broadly correct, but probably lacking a lot of detailed knowledge. If I'm off base, I'll be happy to defer to those who have a better grasp of the situation. You're fr...

AND the current party in power is Franco's old party No. Franco's old party is Falange Tradicionalista y de las JONS, which is still around and got all of 15,000 votes in the last general elections. Now, PP descends from AP, which was founded by former Franco ministers, but in all formal aspects it...

Problem for Spain with letting Catalonia go is that IIRC Catalonia is one of the richest regions and their taxes are subsidizing much of the rest of the country, which is why the central government wants to retain such tight control. That is a part of it, anyway. To be more specific, Catalonia as o...

Aren't referenda ... supposed to be technically nonbinding? No. The laws irregularly (contrary to basic catalan law, Spanish constitutional law and catalan parliamentary procedure) passed by the regionalists states that the vote is binding and that a victory of leave, regardless of turnout, will be...

The Romulan Republic wrote: ↑2017-10-02 09:32amIt was previously mentioned in this thread that some of the secessionists had made threats of violence against local officials if they didn't care out the referendum.

Some stuff along those lines.

But the stuff Sunday was out of all proportion.

And now I'm wondering if this is going to turn into the first civil war in Western Europe in recent history. Not a war as such, because there is no military to fight against, but one of the very bad case scenarios is Catalonia becoming like Northern Ireland during the troubles, in steroids, while S...

Now back to Catalonia, the Catalan government claims a 90% vote for independence with a turnout of 42.3%. I am willing to bet the anti independence voters didn't turn up because the shit the Spanish government was threatening to do, and ended up doing. Despite this, the turnout should have been hig...

The Guardian may be fake news, but in this case its just sourcing images from twitter so I will post it here (its still early days yet so I don't expect them journalists to confirm anything yet). https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2017/oct/01/catalan-independence-referendum-spain-catalonia-vote...

Given how according to Murazor their plan is a blatant lie I am quite confident to say that lacking the bravery to pull off such bullshit is not what they are lacking in. To clarify, the current nationalist government is in an extremely shaky position and guaranteed to implode after the referendum,...

Thirty years would put me in the second half of Francoism and, for all that I do not have to worry about the sexual or ethnic issues of the time, I have enough knowledge of history to give that a wide pass. I might sign up for ten to fifteen years earlier, though. Entering the workplace just as the ...

Maybe, but promising and understanding are two different things. Surely the Catalonia officials who have gone forth with a blatant act of defying the central government, understand the consequences. Well, yes, they understand the consequences. That would be why they have given themselves a pre-empt...

How do the seperatists propose to deal with not being a Member of the EU? Mainly, by claiming that they will remain members of the EU or be allowed in in no time flat. After all, among the things being said lately, we have heard that after an hypothetical independence the citizens of Catalonia woul...

*waves hand*

Hiya there.

Spanish forumite here, moderately well informed about all this stuff, with rusty but moderately serviceable ability to understand catalan.

Can I help you guys with any doubts you might have about this thing?

And Bob Dylan takes Literature.

What the actual fuck?

Vendetta wrote:As even Rowling said, gun beats wand most of the time

Bit off-topic, but I'd like to comment that the source of the "muggle with a shotgun" quote is the goddamn unicorn of Potter versus debating. Everyone knows the quote, but no one seems to know where it comes from.

To compare, the namesake ship Dahak *is* the Moon, or a significant chunk of it anyway. The enemy's headquarters ship *is* Jupiter (or was that Saturn?)'s moon Iapetus. This is not right as such. While the main characters left the solar system with Dahak, to look for reinforcements, a scout fleet o...

It is kind of confusing that a "good guy" would create a technique that basically snags a soul, hijacks a corpse, and enslaves the results to your will. Then again, the running theme throughout the series was that the ninja world was incredibly fucked up. Child soldiers, for Christ's sake...

Corvus 501 wrote:Ever wondered what would happen when you mixed space opera with the fantasy kitchen sink genre?

Spelljammer is what comes to mind, tbh.

I'd like to comment that I consider austerity advocacy during a recession a position largely divorced from good economic sense, that I consider the German position in this whole fiasco generally deplorable (I also find the Greek position and precedent generally deplorable, but Germany simply matters...

I'll say the Foundationverse, during the Spacer period, for a setting with some interesting storytelling potential that fanfic has barely touched upon.

Some of the ongoing shenanigans are impressive in their scope, such as the claim that Germany selling weapons to Saudi Arabia was done to get the World Cup , but the most baffling thing about this whole show is still the claim about FIFA Paraguay HQ being granted extraterritoriality status in the le...

Stand Still, Stay Silent has what is likely the best artwork I've ever encountered in a webcomic. After a prologue in which we see how people in Scandinavia deal with quarantines set up to contain a superplague, we flash forward a hundred years into the future. This is a time in which the city of R...