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What does the "banana republic is a fucked up name for a store" post you reblogged mean? I'm afraid of looking dumb.

The term "banana republic" was originally coined to describe countries in Central and South America (mainly Honduras and Guatemala) whose economies were rendered dependent on the production and export of bananas (among other agricultural goods, but mainly bananas) by American fruit corporations leveraging the power of the U.S. government, the U.S. military and the CIA.

Throughout most of the of the 20th century, American corporations such as United Fruit, Cuyamel, and the Standard Fruit Company owned large portions of these countries' lands, to the point that in some cases they controlled their railway, road, and port infrastructure, and they engaged in a variety of imperialist actions to lower production costs, such as violence against labor activists and anti wage reform lobbying.

The pinnacle of this phenomenon was the 1954 Guatemalan coup, when United Fruit convinced the goverment of US president Dwight D. Eisenhower that the elected president of Guatemala, Jacobo Árbenz (who had expropriated some of the company's unused land and given it to Guatemalan peasants) was secretly working with the Soviet Union, resulting in a CIA coup which deposed the Árbenz government and replaced it with a thirty-year right-wing military dictatorship which effectively acted as a puppet government to protect the interests of United Fruit and the U.S. government.

Nowadays the term has broadened to refer to any small, economically unstable country with an economy which has been rendered dependent on the export of a particular natural resource due to economic exploitation by a more powerful country.

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Jennifer Tilly and Gina Gershon on 35mm film in promotional images from Bound (1996).

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Roman mosaic floor, from the Gallo-Roman Museum of Lyon.

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“GROUPE SURRÉALISTE” MAN RAY // circa 1924-25 [gelatin silver print | 9.2 x 8.3 cm.]

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A pike jumped out of the water likely chasing prey and got stuck in a branch and died. Now, a bird has made a nest in its mouth. One of the most interesting things I’ve seen.

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Chiesa di San Paolo Apostolo (Church of St Paul the Apostle), by Benvenuto Villa and Maria Rosa Zibetti Ribaldone (1971-1973).

Gallarate, Italy.

© Roberto Conte (2016)

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Elias Koteas as Harlan Sangster in Novocaine 2001 dir. David Atkins

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A bedroom inside the Nakagin Capsule Tower Building by Kisho Kurokawa (1972)

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Masahisa Fukase: Sasuke!! Dear Cat (1979)

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Glass Staircase at the Go'o Shrine (2002) Designed by: Hiroshi Sugimoto

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This was in Sioux Falls South Dakota! The green sky is caused by large hail stones within the storm refracting back green light to the observer.

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halcyon past days. Incidentally it’s 420 today

#voxal #hazbin hotel #alastor hazbin hotel #i have such thoughts about the before times #homoerotic joint lighting with a finger

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you know what really gets my goat?