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[–] delgato 86 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I went on a walking tour in Bogota years back and the tour guide made sure to let us know never to eat Chiquita bananas because of this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana_Massacre?wprov=sfti1

Sorry don’t know how to hyperlink on mobile

[–] Quadhammer 30 points 11 months ago (4 children)

resulting in the deaths of 47 to 2000 people

Kinda wide margin there

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife 4 points 11 months ago

Kinda weird that 47 deaths would seem like "is that all?"

[–] AaronAllBlacks 4 points 11 months ago

I thin kit's in the ballpark of 3 to 75,000

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Seems a bit intentional:

General Cortés Vargas, who commanded the troops during the massacre, took responsibility for 47 casualties. In reality, the exact number of casualties has never been confirmed. Herrera Soto, co-author of a comprehensive and detailed study of the 1928 strike, has put together various estimates given by contemporaries and historians, ranging from 47 to as high as 2,000.[1] According to Congressman Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, the killed strikers were thrown into the sea.[1] Other sources claim that the bodies were buried in mass graves.[2]

[–] Emerald 2 points 11 months ago

I can't remember if I killed one person with my car yesterday or if it was 42 people

[–] TheMinions 21 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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[–] [email protected] 83 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I think about this tweet a lot.

[–] EdibleFriend 148 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

My favorite tweet from that first day of all hell breaking loose when you could buy the check mark was that Tesla account that said a second Tesla has hit the world trade center

Edit- oh and how can we forget the tweet about free insulin that did massive damage to that company's stocks

[–] [email protected] 73 points 11 months ago

It was hilarious seeing companies scrambling to do damage control and showing their full ass in the process!

[–] [email protected] 34 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 45 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The irony of posting links to Reddit while talking about Twitter on Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I thought about that and came

to the conclusion, that it's the best way to post because it credits the guy who actually found and sort-of archived it instead of just reposting the images

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I just wish people would learn to crop their shit

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

It was a good way to do it, just found it amusing

[–] RIP_Cheems 76 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Chiquita tell me what's wrong...

[–] MonsieurArchi 7 points 11 months ago

You're enchained by your own sorrow...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago

You mean a fake account with a checkmark?

Who would have guessed that would happen?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

As a Brazilian I can tell that the bottom one is the fake one

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)
[–] IndustryStandard 6 points 11 months ago

and intervention by the United States in Central America

Of course

[–] FatTony 1 points 11 months ago

I like to imagine they used banana's as guns.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

"I can quit any time I want!"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] BustinJiber 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

"Since overthrow of President Jacobo Arbenz of Guatemala in 1954 in a US-backed coup in support of the United Fruit Company (now Chiquita Banana)." From Google.

Also Chiquita to plead guilty to ties with terrorists 2007

The company has long history of evil.