Point 1: If somebody's bound and determined to believe I'm a sock-puppet, or a sentient singing cream-puff, or a dog on the Internet or whatever, they're obviously never going to accept any evidence I'm not...but that doesn't actually answer the question.
Stahlseele, do you believe that Spain is currently, today, in a literal state of civil war?
Point 2:
Trollman, your mad-libs game is cute, but it's also dodging the question. Do you believe that Spain is currently, today, in a literal state of civil war?
Point 2a: If your point was that any defiance of national law by sub-national bodies constitutes a full-scale revolt against the government, I can fill in your mad-libs with "practically the entire U.S.", "the U.S.", and "not applicable", because
this --
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legality_ ... s-laws.svg
I assume you do not believe the United States is currently, today, in a literal state of civil war. And yet all but five of the country's 55 assorted states and territories is in blatant defiance of federal laws regarding marijuana as an absolutely-forbidden-without-exception "Schedule I substance". The good ol' District of Columbia
itself is in defiance of federal laws. And in many of those states and territories, they've been non-compliant for
years. Plural. How is this possible? Why aren't hippies and stoners being exploded with Hellfire missiles even as we speak?
Point 3:
Ancient History, you say that nobody has claimed that this is an armed revolt. Being a dim-wit -- Stahlseele is right about that one, albeit unnecessarily childish what with those diminutive "Ys", but what else can we expect from an attention-seeking baby -- that is exactly the point I'm trying to establish. Because Stahlseele keeps saying there's no other way to describe what's going on in Spain except "rebellion/civil war". Zinegata has referred at least once to "the Catalan rebels", and in that same post, he or she said "Frank and I are simply pointing out that Catalan is in fact in a state of rebellion"; in an earlier post, he or she declared "that Catalan f***wits are still trying to declare independence makes this an ongoing rebellion" and went on for several paragraphs about "the reality of war". Direct quotes.
So you can see why a dumb prole like myself could get confused. It sure sounds
an awful lot like they're saying this is, right this minute, an honest-to-Franco Spanish civil war. I know that is ludicrous, and I must therefore be incorrect. And you say it
is incorrect: "It is not, nor has anyone claimed, that this is an armed revolt". Great! Um...how exactly should I interpret those sentences, then?[/u]