{"id":152,"date":"2018-12-12T20:06:58","date_gmt":"2018-12-12T20:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuff.tamius.net\/sacred-texts\/?p=152"},"modified":"2018-12-12T20:08:10","modified_gmt":"2018-12-12T20:08:10","slug":"spain-forget-to-check-themselves-wreck-themselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuff.tamius.net\/sacred-texts\/2018\/12\/12\/spain-forget-to-check-themselves-wreck-themselves\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain forget to check themselves, wreck themselves"},"content":{"rendered":"\nSo here&#8217;s a fun thing that happened today in the Spanish-Catalonian dispute. Catalonian leaders stated they want to follow the &#8216;Slovenian way&#8217; to independence. Spain was quick to reply with: &#8220;ye you mean that violent conflict that ended dozens of lives?&#8221; Meanwhile in Slovenia, Slovenian foreign ministry <a href=\"https:\/\/www.total-slovenia-news.com\/politics\/2674-slovenian-foreign-ministry-to-educate-spanish-ambassador-on-the-nature-of-the-country-s-independence\">invites Spanish ambassador to have a much-needed history lesson<\/a>. <br>\n\n\n\nThe abstract of the history lesson goes somewhere along these lines:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Slovenia to Yugoslavia: &#8220;gib independence&#8221;<\/li><li>Yugoslavia: &#8220;No.&#8221;<\/li><li>Slovenia: &#8220;But we insist.&#8221;<\/li><li>Yugoslavia: invades<\/li><li>Croatia and Bosnia: are also tossing shit around at the time<br><\/li><li>Yugoslavia: decides that waging war against Slovenia isn&#8217;t too viable when they also have to deal with Bosnia and Croatia, retreating from Slovenia only 10 days after invading<\/li><li>The end.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n\nWhich leaves us with two explanations for behaviour of Spanish politicians:<br>\n\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Spanish politicians are uneducated twats in a dire need of a history lesson<\/li><li>They had their history lesson, this is just them issuing a low-key threat to Catalonia <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n\nKnowing how badly Spain is reacting to Catalonian independence, both seem equally plausible.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOh and by the way: it&#8217;s okay to not know the history of every square inch of the planet. Nobody needs to know the entire history of every little country on the planet. But if you <em>are<\/em> going to make a reference to it, then at least check the facts. It&#8217;s really not that hard.<br>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So here&#8217;s a fun thing that happened today in the Spanish-Catalonian dispute. Catalonian leaders stated they want to follow the &#8216;Slovenian way&#8217; to independence. Spain was quick to reply with: &#8220;ye you mean that violent conflict that ended dozens of lives?&#8221; Meanwhile in Slovenia, Slovenian foreign ministry invites Spanish ambassador to have a much-needed history lesson. 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