Comments by "" (@RedXlV) on "Trump's Kids Play "We're the Victims" in Depraved Media Tour" video.

  1. The term originated as a critique of American imperialism. American mercenaries hired by banana companies literally staged coups in Central America to install puppet dictators who'd give the American companies a monopoly.
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  2. The shitty part is that everybody forgets the original meaning of the term. American imperialism deliberately created "banana republics" by overthrowing Central American governments to install puppet dictators. Said dictators weren't even puppets of the US government, but of American corporations who wanted a monopoly on the banana harvest.
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  3. The actual origin of the term "banana republic" is a nation where the US stages a coup and installs a puppet dictator for the benefit of American companies to exploit the nation's resources. The original "banana republic" was Honduras, where American mercenaries overthrew the government on behalf of the Cuyamel Fruit Company (the predecessor of Chiquita) so that they'd have a monopoly on Honduran bananas. Leave it to a Trump to be completely ignorant of how the term refers to American imperialism.
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  4. No, we do know what the number of such opportunities they passed up on: zero. The Trumps didn't even make a pretense of avoiding conflicts of interest.
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  5. The term "banana republic" originated to refer to the Central American nations that had US backed coups install puppet dictators, for the sole purpose of giving American companies a monopoly on bananas.
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  6. That is indeed the origin of the term. American companies literally used mercenaries to overthrow the governments in Central America and install puppet dictators.
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  7. Rhymes with "bike".
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