• @RedAggroBest
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      249 months ago

      If you live anywhere where a banana cannot grow and get them cheaply, you’re benefitting from imperialism regardless of where the banana you actually eat is grown because it’s the cheap bananas from those banana republics that determined the market value.

        • @HerrBeter
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          9 months ago

          Mix in a bit of slavery, I too think it’s a form of imperialism

            • @HerrBeter
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              29 months ago

              What’s cutthroat capitalism then?

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      89 months ago

      Can you name some examples of banana-growing exporters that weren’t undermined by the US to the point of banana republic

        • @bitwaba
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          09 months ago

          What a wonderful “technically correct” answer.