Comment on Banana

• Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  And just to rub salt into the wound, someone created a clothing store named after the political corruption imposed on those countries to accomplish this: Banana Republic.

  I can’t think of what an equivalent would be in terms of offensive marketing, Starving Irish brand potatoes? A Saudi demolition company named after September 11th? A clothing store inspired by antebellum southern US clothes? I guess some companies still use imagery of indigenous people for tobacco products. That seems like it’s in the same vein.

  Generally, I try to focus on how beautiful life can be, but damn if there isn’t a crowd trying to make it ugly for others.

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  • lemming741@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I’ve always assumed I misunderstood the brands name but no one has corrected you yet…

    To the rabbit hole!

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    • lemming741@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Ok I’m back, it’s just ignorant assholes all the way down

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      • WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Well that didn’t take very long… Disturbing how quickly you were able to discern it was all assholes all the way down.

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      • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Wow, thanks for doing the research! Did you find anything especially interesting?

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  • ricecake@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Twin Towers wholesale outlet: our prices are coming down fast!

    Pearl harbor casual clothing.

    Jim crows bar and grill.

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    • GraniteM@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Image

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    • tomenzgg@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      That last one is just something that could’ve realistically existed.

      …and would continue to exist, unaltered, well up until the 70s when, finally, it was modified due to growing public awareness; and only because of that.

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      • LillyPip@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Sambo’s managed to barely survive until 2020.

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    • Mac@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Our prices are falling from our hot deals but fret not: the melting point of steel… 🤔

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      • qqq@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        “Jet fuel can’t melt steel beams” was probably a gateway drug for so many of the crazies today

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  • XiELEd@piefed.social ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Well I think I just realised why they do it. There’s this longstanding conspiracy theory that whenever a politician does a fuckup they conveniently say keywords associated with the fuckup but put it in a different context (like say, scandal related to trains, so they get into a model train hobby), so if people search up their name plus trains what shows up are articles talking about their new hobby.

    Just thought of this because I was searching up “Banana Republic” in the context of neocolonialism (while reading my country’s history) and besides the Wikipedia page being the first result, the next results were that store. And I remembered this reply.

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    • Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I had never heard of that tactic. Thanks for sharing. I’ll be looking for IRL examples now.

      Nixon should have started a hobby in hydraulic engineering specializing in the design and production of water gates, specifically for the Potomac River, including one near that hotel/office/apartment complex that’s name I forget.

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  • IronBird@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    i’m stealing the demolition company named around september 11th idea, that’s actually funny as fuck

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    • ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      If our competition raises prices! … We’ll bring them down!!!

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• GandalftheBlack@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  This is why bananas are cheaper in the UK than in Brazil

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