Comment by arcticbull
5 years ago
IMO the best example is Chiquita -- they conspired with the CIA to overthrow the democratically elected government of Guatemala to secure their banana fields against the "godless communists." Naturally, they left Guatemala with a right-wing dictatorship. This kicked off a 46 year long civil war and the fallout has directly contributed to the migrant crisis at the border. They called it Operation PBSuccess. [1]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_Guatemalan_coup_d%27%C3%A...
The phrase "Banana Republic" is entirely due to Chiquita/United Fruit Company.
God bless America?
(Also, wtf, Banana Republic is now an American fashion brand? Jesus Christ, way to have zero insight)
Once again, really unsure why you're being downvoted for mentioning facts.
Are you perhaps hurting some "invisible hand" idealists feelings? Who knows.
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> I’ve noticed that anything
You're noticing, and then overgeneralizing, the data points you dislike (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...). The overgeneralization comes because you don't notice (or underemphasize) the data points that don't make you angry. This is classic sample bias, as I believe I've pointed out to you under a different username in the past.
Once people arrive at a spurious generalization like this, they imagine grandiose and sinister explanations for it. But the truth is quite boring: the community is divided the same way society at large is divided, the same way any large-enough population sample is. The only way HN is different is that we try to stop people from bashing each other with rhetorical two-by-fours about it. With limited success.
Since you've continued to post flamewar comments and ignore our requests to stop, I've banned this account. Please don't create accounts to break HN's guidelines with. For someone who purports to care about community, that's incongruent.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html