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pathetic piss kitten @kitten@elizabeth.cat
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Catalan historical politics the other day I missed the anniversary of the 8-second Catalan Republic of 2017

October 10th, 2017, 4 days after the official results of the referendum of independence, Carles Puigdemont addressed the Catalan Parliament to discuss the results, and said:
I assume the mandate of the people for Catalonia to become an independent state in the form of a republic
and just immediately he pulled the biggest bait and switch of history and said:
I ask Parliament to suspend the effects of the Declaration of Independence so that in the coming weeks we can undertake a dialogue
the pictures of the people watching the speech can tell enough by themselves
hundreds of people in Arc de Triomf, visibly euphoric and celebrating. in the foreground, a woman wearing white clothes with her arms on the air.
same place, moments later, everyone's expression changed completely to be dead serious, the woman in the foreground has her hands weirdly down in a clear expression of despair
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sam "Mißbrauch ionisierender Strahlen" reiziger @sam@shonk.sam.ax
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Catalan historical politics @kitten this looks like a meme template
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Yenn dc ☂️ @yenndc@kolektiva.social
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@sam @kitten

As an Spaniard, I can confirm, the images definitely and 100% are commonly used as a meme.

Often enough, in fact, that upon seeing them my first thought was that the post was a joke.

It's not hard to check the event indeed took place however.

A little harder, to check if the photos were indeed from the time.
It seems they could be indeed — archived reference: web.archive.org/web/20171011063729/https://verne.elpais.com/verne/2017/10/10/articulo/1507653719_231546.html

[Can't provide direct memory, unfortunately — at the time for personal reasons EsPol was completely out of my priorities, so I very much skipped through all the mess surrounding this.]
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Daphne Preston-Kendal @dpk@swhack.com
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Catalan historical politics @kitten ahaha those photos are incredible
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pathetic piss kitten @kitten@elizabeth.cat
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Catalan historical politics @dpk they are some of the most iconic from back then
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anne_triangle Purpose neocat_happy @Purpose@is.acute.cat
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Catalan historical politics @kitten Ei! Sisplau tens respecte. La Republica Puigdemontese va existir almenys 39 segons. ☝️neocat_glasses
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pathetic piss kitten @kitten@elizabeth.cat
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Catalan historical politics it did achieve something, though, and that was confusing the Spanish Government, whose president officially gave Puigdemont 5 days to clarify "what did he exactly do" and "whether he had declared independence or not"
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Lambda Crime [The Möth Society] @16af93@wetdry.world
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re: Catalan historical politics @kitten lol what, when you independence declaration is so confusing even the government is unsure about if you did it 🥴
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