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[-] Rooskie91@discuss.online 4 points 10 months ago

Unless, of course, you're a member of the banana Republic that produced the banana. Then $2 is the largest fortune you've ever seen and your hands get chopped off if you get caught eating a banana when you were supposed to be picking it for the sheltered, ignorant shit head that wrote this tweet.

[-] jimbo@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago

I don't understand what you think is ignorant about this tweet.

[-] NegativeInf@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Right. It's like idiots in the thread are reading it backwards or something. The fact that a banana can be purchased anywhere in the world for an excessively low price, any time of year, shows the level of subjugation used to farm the bananas and harvest them in the first place is the benefit. Labor intensive sensitive crop grown in south and Central America by workers compensated very little for their work, and then treated far less than equitably in most other ways, (banana wars). The point of the tweet is that fucking everything the dumbass eating the banana has ever touched is more than likely proof that imperialism has benefitted him.

[-] just_change_it@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

isn't cheap food and goods imported from around the world a benefit for those that live in the US and other rich countries?

It's horrible for 90%+ of the world, but for those 10% they get a huge benefit and the few thousand owners get even more money for their dynasties.

[-] Gladaed@feddit.de 0 points 10 months ago

They are harvested green and inedible.

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