Oct 2, 2017

yeah I voted for yes. My dad slept in one of the electoral schools with many people, to protect it from the police. I can assure you everything is super peaceful from us, and people of all backgrounds voted for yes. There is a lot of context in this movement, but I find the situation pretty surreal overrall. Spanish government and media say such ridiculous things that you cant believe your ears. They say we are doing a coup d'etait to democracy because... well we wanted to vote.

 

Oct 2, 2017

I see nobody posted it so, yeah, yesterday we did a referendum an the yes won by 90% even though we had Spanish police beating up civilians (lot of them, eldery) trying to keep em from voting.

How did the media portray it in your country?

 

Oct 4, 2017

Y’all deserve independence. Disgusting actions from the Spanish government.

 

Oct 4, 2017

Well it has a lot of layers. I always was a political guy but I didnt care about the independence that much. Its just that years pass, Spain never changes, on control we have a king put tthere by a dictator, the grandsons of the facism times (literally) and everything about Franco is still allowed (like the infamous Valle de los Caidos, mausuleum to Franco, paid with public money). Add to that, the level of corruption in Spain is insanely high, like new cases every week, up in our faces with impunity.

Catalunya always had their own culture and thinking. The independence movement always existed, and our culture has been forbiden 2 or 3 times during history. In the media they call us nazis, talibans, terrorists.. whatever you want, just because we want to protect our culture. I dont know man, we dont think Catalunya is the promised land and we dont hate Spanish people, but we had enough of waiting and not being listened by Spain. If they tried to listen, this would have ended long time ago. They f----- it up.

 

Oct 4, 2017

it's the f---ing catalunya wine mixer

 

Oct 2, 2017

The only place I've seen anything about it was on Reddit.

Situation seemed pretty f-----, even saw a picture of firefighters shielding voters from riot police that were there trying to stop people, apparently the firefighters were subsequently f----- up as well.