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[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Do you guys ever think about the term 'banana republic'?

It's strange that, in popular culture, it is seen as a criticism of a under developed nation with a corrupt government, when it was coined to criticize very specifically the United State of America using their military to help deeply abusive corporations gain as much money as possible growing literal bananas.

But surely the USofA stopped that practice in the 1910's, right?