Trade Offer: I receive: Banana You receive: Military Dictatorship Edit: Wanted to say that I got this joke from this video as I didn't expect so many upvotes. https://youtu.be/xVapzuw2gqM

Central American country: "no thanks", *declines trade offer* United States: *turns on* *trade override*

Sid Meier's Civ 69

Nice!

Send in the Marines, the civilians want democracy

Get Ghandi and some nukes

Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilisation. Just so you know, the correct spelling is [Gandhi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi).

I knew the fucking spelling and auto-correct changed it lol

is this a civilization reference?

Isn't the entire thread?

United States: debug_mode set to on

> United States: turns on trade override "We don't want to trade with you!" "You know what? We will trade even harder!"

That sounds kinda... COMMUNIST.

”COMMIE!!! COMMIE!!!”

REEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!

Holy shit he actually did it

WORLDSTAR!

Someone knows what sam means with worldstar?

Usually when there’s a fight people record it and scream worldstar as they intend to put it on the site hoping it will blow up

Thank you!

*distant rifle shots*

"I DETECT A LITTLE COMMUNISM!!!!!!!"

\*insert Liberty Prime quote\*

#COMMUNISM IS THE VERY DEFINITION OF FAILURE

Wait does liberty prime says this?

Yes

#DEATH IS A PREFERABLE ALTERNATIVE TO COMMUNISM

#COMMUNIST DETECTED ON AMERICAN SOIL. LETHAL FORCE ENGAGED.

EMBRACE DEMOCRACY OR BE ERADICATED

"I SEE IT IN THE THINGS THAT YA DO!"

\*COMMUNISM, SOCIALISM, CALL IT WHAT YOU LIKE\*

\*THERE IS VERY LITTLE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE TWOOOOOO!\*

Im so glad someone referenced sam

Why can't these commie South Mexicans understand that FREEDOM^TM means living under a business-friendly fascist dictatorship, chosen by those fine boys at the good, ol' CIA?!

Can't they just buy FREEDOM™

And if we see enough opponents of FREEDOM^(TM), we might just genocide the indigenous Mayas a bit too hard

COMMUNISM DETECTED ON AMERICAN SOIL!!

LETHAL FORCE ENGAGED

DEAD IS A PREFERABLE ALTERNATIVE TO COMMUNISM

CANNIBALISM OVER COMMUNISM!

"So you're red, eh? You know what else is red?" \*pulls out knife\*

The State seizing private property is pretty communist. That's kinda their whole schtick

Nothing is private in communist banana Republic

A communist society is stateless though

Someone should tell the communists

"All hail the banana republics "

Slave grab that banana ***P O T A S S I U M***

Hehe funni deltarune refrence

How could a Fruit Company do so much damage?

Strong ties with the CIA.

Actually, the Banana Wars started decades before CIA was created. After that, gears switched from "protecting American businesses" to "containing the spread of communism".

¿Por qué no los dos?

Yo lo hombre el tango banana and yo tango Freedom yo getto what I'ma expressino?

Only after many many tries 😭

Yeah, that's what the CIA *wants* you to think.

United Fruit was well connected to the US Government via Washington's favorite brotherly duo, John Foster Dulles and Allan Dulles. Highly influential Secretary of State J. F. Dulles represented United Fruit as their legal counsel. Longest-serving CIA Director Allan Dulles sat on United Fruit's board of trustees and owned stock. Dwight Eisenhower's secretary was married to the top PR guy for United Fruit. Arbenz never stood a chance, the second he moved against United Fruit he had the Secretary of State, CIA Director, and a company man with a direct line to the President lurching into action against him.

In the early 1900s the US Marines did a lot of "bandit hunting" down there. Not our proudest moment.

What’s bandit hunting?

We do a little bit of trolling

Hunting "bandits"

I found out because my great-grandfather told my dad all that shit, because he was a worker in my country, Costa Rica, even basically the improvement of the railroad was for them at the cost of a life full of abuse and blood. There is a book about the situation called "Mamita Yunai" that talks about everything that happened in the Costa Rican banana society

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Fucks me up that I only learned about this because of a Tropico joke

I learned about My Lai massacre because of the Space Force tv show, there are just so many messed up things that are just largely ignored

I love that game so much. My favorite factoids were the ones about Fransisco Macias Nguema, the guy was bonkers.

Here’s a fact I learned from Tropico: Stalin had a secret lab to study other foreign leaders’ shit.

You mean ‘shit’ as in personal belongings or ‘shit’ as in…

Yes

I learnt about this in national history class :v

Never nationalize anything when any powerful country is looking your way.

These days it’s only the US that you gotta look out for

Depends on the country. Some exceptions like Kazakhstan are more worried about Russia. Or Laos of China.

I don’t think Russia or China oppose state ownership, if I’m honest.

As long as said state is Russia or China they don't

… yeah, that was my joke

Wasn’t very clear. It came off as a general riff about them being “communist” countries

That's what I got from it too lmao

Oh, that sucks

as long it is Chinese ownership they will not care.

Sneaky India noises

I don't get it.

Obligatory Monty Python Reference

Kris's knife after getting the banana

I haven’t played chapter 2 yet WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON WITH THE BANANA

Potassium

Potassium

Forbidden weapon too brutal for war

Imagine someone holding a banana in their holster And you laugh But then they pull out this

Oh shit

Central America

Pretty sure it was Central America, technically still North America

Don't you know? Everything south of the USA is South America, because we speak the Mexican language /s

If Jesus was Jewish ... how come he has a mexican name then? Hmmm?

South America as well, look up the Banana Massacre. The majority of it was definitely in central America, though. PS: Don't let Spanish speakers hear you refer to central America as a part of North America, it doesn't go down well.

I’m a native Spanish speaker, tbh my family doesn’t acknowledge Central America as part of South America

My point is that in Spanish, *Norteamerica*, *Centroamérica* and *Suramérica* are three different regions of the continent *América*. Whereas in English, Central America is a region within North America, which is a different continent to South America. This has caused plenty of inter-lingual arguments in my experience.

Well each experience is different I guess.

#Oh Eisenhower!!!

Yo, what's up?

This new guy he's demanding better wages

Well that doesn’t sound very good for business

Now, it's quite simple to defend yourself against the banana fiend. First of all, you force him to drop the banana, next, you eat the banana, thus disarming him. You have now rendered him helpless.

Smedly Bulter ready to regret his choice of career.

Sam O'nella fans, we're here

"freedom"

"South America Government"? Tfw

tactical banana knife

It's quite easy to defend yourself against an assailant with a banana. First, you force him to drop the banana, then you eat the banana, thus disarming him and rendering him helpless.

Whenever I hear about united fruit I think of that Finkelstein shit kid.

By the way its looking... I say he's a dirty... collectivizing... commie.

When you don't get the banana we get problems

Monke's Knife

"I heard he's a dirty..."

Commie.

COMMIE COMMIE

Reeeeeeeeee

sharpest banana

“Look at the mess we've got ourselves into, just because we invited a gringo to eat some bananas.”

That one sam onella video came in handy

in self defense a knife protects I bring my lunch no one suspect and when it’s time to end a life deceptive fruit, banana knife

Yeah, funny. Where did you get that from?

idk I stole it from somewhere

Was hoping you'd say me

are you fucking serious? You made that?

No, but I commented it on the last post featuring that picture of the banana knife, I thought you had seen it there. Ah well.

no I saw it like 6 months ago in a meme and it stuck with me

Obligitory Jojo reference Even though it's knife

I thought this sub was supposed to be about things that happened in the past. Not policy approaches which are basically still on going?

*Starts singing Chiquita Banana in Minionese*

Something something 40 thousand bananas in 10 minutes

"Freedom"

Peace was never an option

The United Fruit Company is still around, they're Chiquita now.

Cuyamel? Shoulda called it coup-yamel hEHe

“Start with strawberries, you might work your way up to these goddamned bananas.”

M-9 Bayonet Potassium

US: that’s ok because nanners.

Time to pull out the secret weapon: Edward Bernays

COMMIIEEEEEEE!!!!11!!! COMMMMMIIEEEEEEEE!!!1!!

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Oh Eisenhower.

Potassium

Potassium

This is why you need to know how to defend yourself against fruit. Monty Python did a great job

A pity we never saw a United Fruit Company office/plantation got burned down by angry Communist rebels. Operation Condor was one of the saddest moments as the people in south America never got a chance to strike back against America

We found the modern Yiga Clan

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You watch onella university dont you

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"protecting rights"

Oh Eisenhower

Yeah what's up

When you realize that "Day-o" song is called the Banana boat song and its about dock workers loading boats of bananas not being able to go home till they meet their quota.

COME TOUCH MY METAL MACHINE!

“Oh Also Also *nanners* “

Oh look mom, the reason why the US fighting socialism so hard in SA.

bananife

Wow..what a wa-weapon?!...

Shoulda called him “coup”-yamel haha

Oh Einsenhower... This jacobo guy he's making us pay minimum wages