[ID: tweet chain among 3 different Twitter users. Transcription:

1: “I don’t see how I benefit from imperialism” he says as he peels a Dole banana that he can buy literally any time of year for under $2.

2: Dole literally helped to sponsor a coup in Honduras backed by the CIA for daring to raise minimum wage. We don’t benefit from imperialism indeed they say as as wages in the global South are sacrificed to the capitalist gods and beef up the global North’s overconsumption.

3: The united fruit co loaned a boat to the bay of pigs invasion. Zero separation from business and political violence /end ID]

Where do people think the term "banana republic" comes from?