Show threadKevin Karhan Sep 17, 2025

@hllizi Unlike some "#BananaRepublics" like #Texas ¹²³⁴, #Germany openly welcomes #ElectionMonitoring as key to #transparency in it's #democracy.

  • As long as one doesn't tamper with the election process, one's free to observe and record the entire process. Literally counting the number of people entering and the number of ballouts put in the box.
Show threadThor A. HoplandFeb 4, 2025

@yianiris the governments laws would have to mandate this to be the case though, and in a couple of decades, it shouldn't be needed for energy companies - because fusion.

But for water? Fuck off, and fuck #Nestle. In a perfect #libertarian society you'd be Nestle's little bitch and you couldn't do a thing about it.

Take your #bananarepublics, #CocaCola in #Columbia, or any company that has subverted and abused the local populace.

This is what pure libertarianism would enable.

RaghnallDNov 13, 2024

With #trump and #maga gaining full control of the #usa it's time for a new flag for the #republic. Here it is.

#bananas #bananarepublics #bananarepublicans #republicans #republicanparty

Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋May 4, 2024

"Banana republics are Central American and Caribbean nations exploited by multinational businesses and imperialist governments."

Stoyack, Aaron. "What Is a Banana Republic?" TheCollector.com, https://www.thecollector.com/what-is-a-banana-republic/ (accessed May 4, 2024).

#History #Histodon #Histodons #Imperialism #Empire #Corporations #BananaRepublics #LatinAmerica #Caribbean @histodon @histodons

#Image attribution: Rosendahl, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Green_bananas_tree.jpg

What Is a Banana Republic?

Banana republics are Central American and Caribbean nations exploited by multinational businesses and imperialist governments.

TheCollector
Show threadBrian SmallJun 20, 2023

.> Where are we headed? Even those of us who stand squarely with the Ukrainian people against the Russian invasion of their country cannot help but marvel at the difference in tone and tenor of the Western Media’s coverage of the war in Ukraine and the breathless admiration with which it covered the US and NATO’s invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, which killed hundreds of thousands of people. This January, Tony Blair, the most passionate purveyor of the fake news about Iraq’s non-existent weapons of mass destruction, which was used to justify the invasion, and President George Bush Jr.’s most enthusiastic ally in the invasion, was ordered Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, the senior most British order of chivalry.
.> Watching the funeral of the Queen the other day I nearly choked on whatever it was I was drinking as I heard one of the Bishops or Archbishops say that, unlike those who merely cling to wealth and power, Queen Elizabeth II would be loved and remembered for her “life of service” to the public. Her son, the new King of England, will inherit her wealth and station. His royal lifestyle will not be supported by his own private wealth, which reportedly amounts to about a billion dollars. It will be paid for with public money, by the British people, millions of whom, the Guardian reports, have begun to skip a meal every day just to “keep the lights on.”...
.> A recent analysis in the Financial Times concludes that income inequality in the US and the UK is so great that they could be classed as “poor societies with some very rich people”. They’re like us ‘Third Worlders’ now, Banana Republics whose wealthy have seceded into outer space and whose poor are falling into the sea.
.> A 2022 Oxfam study says India’s 98 richest people own the equivalent of the combined wealth of the poorest 552 million people. For this impertinence, Oxfam offices in India have been raided by the Income Tax department and perhaps will soon be shut down, like Amnesty International and every other organisation that is critical of the Modi regime. #Oxfam #FinancialTimes #USA #UK #ThirdWorlders #BananaRepublics #OuterSpace #TonyBlair #QueenElizabeth #FuneralOfTheQueen #QueensFuneral
@bsmall2

Dame Scott GJan 5, 2023
I was naive, but 2016 changed my perspective on politics in the United States. I had never thought I be living under an #unstable government. I naively and wrongly assumed that such #instability occurred in #bananarepublics, newly #postcolonial countries ...