• InevitableSwing [none/use name]
    hexagon
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    11 months ago

    I'm certain he thinks that.

    Imagine somebody replied to him with this link to a Wikipedia section and they gave him a ~200 word baby brain summary so he doesn't have to strain his baby noggin with big words and context and too much information.

    1954 Guatemalan coup d'état

    United Fruit Company lobbying

    He couldn't understand. There's no way to get him to understand.

    How can a fruit company be powerful? They just sell fruit!

    He can't fathom that countries like the US historically and still routinely bully weaker countries and powerful entities allied with US interests benefit greatly. Sometimes it's fruit and other times it might even literally be "digging up minerals".