#no more banana republic

[godisarepublican]

[busterballsblog]

[godisarepublican]

True American Heroes!

UNITING THE DEMS AND THE REPS IS THE BEST CHOICE FOR AMERICA

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[barisistill]

rafael barba does not own expensive suits, he’s a civil servant !!!! he buys them off the rack and has them tailored. smh

[nando161mando]

Just make chatGPT CEO of Open AI. It shares a lot of qualities with your average CEO:

- Steals other people's ideas

- Valued by the market at much more than it's worth

- Doesn't remember things it previously said

- Says patently absurd things with absolute confidence

- Doesn't know what it's doing

- Doesn't really believe in facts so much as what it feels is probably right

[bereft-of-frogs]

so the 'Qimir/the Stranger is actually [ insert high republic character here ]' theories have started to escalate, Imri was one thing, today I saw someone suggest the Stranger is Cohmac and I laughed out loud.

But also sure. The Stranger is Cohmac. XD Why tf not. Except for all the, you know, 'humans don't live that long' and 'their descriptions and official character art do not match Manny Jacinto at all' 'it doesn't actually make sense' but people keep countering that with 'energy transfer' so I guess Qimir really could be anybody.

Wouldn't it be fucking hilarious if it was Azlin Rell. Fucking Azlin. That would be SO funny if he energy-transferred himself into Qimir to live another hundred extra years, to continue being the worst. It would be so funny. Absolutely no one else would find it funny but I would personally find it absolutely hilarious if 'scenic route guy' is Qimir

[godisarepublican]

O'BumHole got away with it

[randomtheidiot]

Desert greening to grow crops for picky vegans is such a fucking stupid idea that I’m starting to question my faith in any sort of human intelligence.

[locustonabench]

twitter is at it again

[club-penguin]

if i dont get this job I'll kill myself nail that to the wall

[darthlenaplant]

So much for the US "bringing freedom and democracy" anywhere btw. Like. About every single fucking time it was THE EXACT OPPOSITE.

What does the "banana republic is a fucked up name for a store" post you reblogged mean? I'm afraid of looking dumb.

The term "banana republic" was originally coined to describe countries in Central and South America (mainly Honduras and Guatemala) whose economies were rendered dependent on the production and export of bananas (among other agricultural goods, but mainly bananas) by American fruit corporations leveraging the power of the U.S. government, the U.S. military and the CIA.

Throughout most of the of the 20th century, American corporations such as United Fruit, Cuyamel, and the Standard Fruit Company owned large portions of these countries' lands, to the point that in some cases they controlled their railway, road, and port infrastructure, and they engaged in a variety of imperialist actions to lower production costs, such as violence against labor activists and anti wage reform lobbying.

The pinnacle of this phenomenon was the 1954 Guatemalan coup, when United Fruit convinced the goverment of US president Dwight D. Eisenhower that the elected president of Guatemala, Jacobo Árbenz (who had expropriated some of the company's unused land and given it to Guatemalan peasants) was secretly working with the Soviet Union, resulting in a CIA coup which deposed the Árbenz government and replaced it with a thirty-year right-wing military dictatorship which effectively acted as a puppet government to protect the interests of United Fruit and the U.S. government.

Nowadays the term has broadened to refer to any small, economically unstable country with an economy which has been rendered dependent on the export of a particular natural resource due to economic exploitation by a more powerful country.

[belgaerthethinker]

Random teenager working the grocery store check out ringing up my food: "it's weird how bananas are always so cheap compared to all our other produce!"

Me, trying as hard as I can to not drop a ten minute rant about the CIA and Guatemala on some poor kid trying to make his way through the day: "haha yeah it's wild"

[busterballsblog]

[bibleofficial]

i caved and ordered the 2 belts i’ve been eyeing from the florence leather school yesterday, & damn they got those shipped FAST - literally ALREADY in transit 😭😭

[xtrablak674]

Morning Photoshoot #sortof

I was just feeling cute having put on a pair of my Banana Republic Outlet skinny jeans, and one of my camouflage print decorated tees that I probably bought at the now defunct Pieces Boutique right here in the Republic of Brooklyn. I was listening to a podcast talking about this new drug that helps with weight-loss and the doctor being interviewed that most people who loose weight gain it back after a year, which said to me that I need to maintain my weight past 2024 to really maintain my current size. She said something about how the body wants to snap back to the previous weight. I was just like, okay its on!

Having thrown on these jeans and the tee to greet the delivery driver from Gorillas, who I noted was a young woman probably of Middle Eastern descent or Latina, I made a silent prayer that she would last longer than the other young women and queer folks that I had seen working for the convenience app. The app is more of convenience to me its my go-to for grocery delivery since I no longer leave my apartment. But I realized that I think the recidivism is high for these positions, there is only one driver I still recognize from when I started using the services after Fridge No More went out of business, and I think I can intuit correctly that for whatever the length of employment for the male drivers the time for women and queers is significantly shorter.

There was Miss Fancy Nails, a clearly trans driver who had these nearly two inch long nails, I always try to encourage the queer and women drivers as much as I can in our very short interactions. I want them to know that I see them, and that this is temporary that great things await them. I am not sure if this message is ever received but I try my best to acknowledge their humanity, apologizing in poor weather and making sure I tip more if I have more items than usual.

For someone who didn't really want to be a parent, I feel very responsible about all young people, its why its hard for me not to be in contact with all of my nieces, niblings and nephews, I think I have had enough time on this plane to offer insight to them that their parents can't especially to to those that are neuroatypical or queer. I am the outsider family member who over-stands what it is like to be the fundamentally different one. Until then I offer what ever encouragement I can to these young strangers, hoping it makes their young lives a bit better if not their day a bit brighter.

[Photo by Brown Estate]

[wilwheaton]

The party is an appendage of one man. Republicans want to talk about banana republics? They are the Banana Republicans. This is like Argentina under Perón or the Philippines under Marcos. And to what manner of man are they appended? Let’s review. He’s a rapist—yes, a judge used that word and said it was accurate, after, remember, another jury of Trump’s peers ruled against him. He’s a massive tax cheat. Six of his political associates, plus Allen Weisselberg (and Cohen, if you want to count him), have been sentenced to prison. Three took plea deals to avoid prison. And now, he’s a convicted felon. The emperor is stripped barer and barer with each passing month, and the Republican response is to praise his finery more passionately than ever.

Susan Collins’s Really Dumb Trump Defense Reveals the GOP’s Sickness

It’s such a weird lie, easily debunked, and telling it doesn’t serve her at all ... unless she is even more craven than we already knew.