Pineapple republic, as a mexican I was not aware of that hiden part of hawaiian story, I felt upset when reading how it ended I related somehow to being under control of a goverment ruled by someone who does not even care about you and not being able to do a thing to change it, sadly thats how many people lives nowdays, we never learn.
@@FisherStAmour-xl4qz looked it up, my bad it was an anachronism. Sanford Dole forms the coup government in 1894 mostly in service of castle & cooke holdings before the foundation of the Hawaiian Pineapple Company in 1901. So it's the other way around Dole lead a coup in Hawaii and then used the resulting power to grant a monopoly to his cousins Dole Fruit company after it was founded.
one of the wildest parts of my childhood was going to the children's museum and playing in the part where you could pretend to be a labourer in a banana plantation only for my grandpa to start spouting war stories his father told him about the actual banana plantations
you’re not gonna believe this but the youtube app asked me how I feel about your comment with a few pictures of smile faces like they have at the doctor when they ask you how much it hurt when you’re a kid
@@Menace0 how happy or sad does it make you that i played in a simulacrum of a banana plantation while my grandfather imagined how his life would've gone if he had gone off to work at one as a young lad instead of staying in his family home and eventually marrying
Colombian here! Because of the United fruit company, a lot of people here died just because they wanted basic human rights, in our History classes we called it "La masacre de las bananeras" the translation is something like "Banana Massacre"
Fun fact: the Chiquita Banana company tried to assassinate my Abuelo when he advocated for worker's unionization and rights in Honduras during the 20th century! So not only did they kill leaders, they didn't hesitate to kill anyone who even considered talking back! My Abuelo eventually immigrated to the US for asylum, and continued to advocate for unionization where they couldn't kill him as easily, haha.
A teacher willing to show the truth in history Dont tell the superintendent. . . . Thats how you get fired for being a good guy. School isent about learning, its about programing. And we dont wanna program our kids to think the adults make mistakes that alter the world on a military scale. Just business
Doesn’t have much to do with anything but I had just read about Smedley yesterday. Apparently he was hired by all these businesses to overthrow FDR in the 1930s and help them install a dictatorship instead. He told the president instead. The coup was prevented and no one was prosecuted. Butler hated his life, denounced capitalism and labeled himself a “racketeer for capitalism” for decades. Roosevelt himself was viewed as a Communist by many of these businessmen. Butler was a Roosevelt supporter though and these businesses were idiots for trying to hire HIM of all people to lead their attempted Coup. The entire thing was ridiculous if not a little scary.
War isent about profit Thats why we invaded Iraq, cuz they "knocked 2 buildings down" so we took their oil fields for almost 11 years and raised the price of gas back home. . . . . Wait a second
No the annexation of Hawaii was far more complicated, theirs a video by Knowing Better who goes far more in depth than I ever could P.S he's from Hawaii
USA is like father, like son. Britain must be proud. After all, brits distabilised The chinese empire with drugs back in The Day. Just because tea sellings were regulated. English speaking countries are The wackiest imperialists now that i think about it.
@@brok56 The funniest part is how the US likes to make Britain the bad guy in everything, but conveniently forgets segregation, the over throwing of governments in the name of profit, etc etc
The Dole Sam talks about in this video, Sanford B. Dole, was actually a cousin of James Dole, who helped create Dole Food Co. Not the same guy, but related.
In Colombia, there's a similar story. In 1928, workers of the banana plantations were protesting against the terrible working conditions. After weeks with no agreement due to the United Fruit Company refusing to negotiate, the conservative Colombian government sent the army to kill the protesting workers. They were compelled to work in the company's interests because they didn't want them to cut off the Colombian banana trade from major powers. This is now known as "La masacre de las bananeras" or the Banana Massacre. This is even referenced in One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez. Just like during the Cold War, US officials in Colombia and United Fruit Co. representatives portrayed them as communist in telegrams sent to then Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg
@@maya-cc2sx Do you watch the video? Because that how Capitalism worked. That what happened when labor right doesn't exist. There a reason why life in Victorian Era was completely misarable for the Proletariat.
Fun fact! United Fruit literally admitted openly to knowingly funding terrorist militias in Colombia to further their political goals. And not one fatcat saw a prison cell as a result. The company had to pay a measly 25 million to the US government, not even to Colombia
I fell asleep watching Sam O'Nella's videos on autoplay, and I cannot tell you how terrifying it is to wake up at 5 am to "COMMIEEEEE COMMMIEEE REEEE" (4:44)
Turniue is there something wrong with being gay? Huh? Are you being judgemental on what is best for whom ever decides to like the opposite sex? The freedom we have in America allows said gayness to be an acceptable thing in society because there is nothing wrong with being gay as that is the life choice that person decide to make and most gays actually find good husbands and wives you judgmental jerk
My dad said that when he was a Marine, his commanding officer said, "Alrighty boys let fight another war for DeBeers" right before going to Africa. Sad stuff.
My father started working for the Vaccaro line in the mid fifties, his first boss Blaise tried to bring boxing back to Nola and got in trouble via forming relationships with Frankie Carbo and Frank Costello and was removed by the matriarch of the family I think is what my dad said . Also the Nola crime commission had a public forum regarding this. He stayed until,just after Murdock bought castle and Cooke.
I'm actually from Guatemala and you have no idea on how much that impacted my country. We are still not recovering from this, as a matter of fact. We are still mourning Jacobo Arbenz, as he was exitiliated from the country and never came back after 1944! Our currency (quetzal) was at dollar level, and obviously that wasn't good for them. Now 7.6 quetzales make up one dollar. And I ran out of facts lol.
I'm so sorry for your country and the many others the states screwed over. Please know that Sam and I are by no means the only Americans that want to see our government right its wrongs. 🇬🇹💙
In December 6th of 1928, the United Fruit Company slaughtered near 3000 workers that were on a strike near Santa Marta, Colombia. The massacre is known as the "banana massacre".
KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME
Victor Ortiz False. The Banana Massacre killed about 13 to 23 workers, but the number has never been verified. The 3,000 figure was essentially invented and popularized by Gabriel Garcia Marquez in One Hundred Years of Solitude to give a greater impact to the theme of his work as it pertains to colonialism.
There was another massacre in El Salvador in 1932 which killed an estimated 10-40 thousand peasants who were rebelling against the puppet state. As for the other guy it's likely hundreds if not thousands were killed in Colombia. The government under reported casualties for obvious reasons
Fun fact! In Bloons TD 5, there was an upgrade for the banana farm called the Banana Republic that had the appearance of a fanciful villa with banana tree sprites! It would give 25 banana drops that rewarded $40 per pickup. It was one of the most powerful midgame upgrades in the game because of this. Unfortunately, the devs decided that angering entire countries wasn't worth the joke and renamed it in Bloons TD 6 as the Banana Plantation.
jocaguz18 they don’t really have to be, they’re the president of the USA not the world I mean it’s nice to be well liked but you don’t have to be loved and do great things for the rest of the world to be a good president of the USA. The rest of the world isn’t your responsibility or obligation to help or fix. The US has forgotten than since the Cold War ended. Hell even during the Cold War
Ajaws2414 I’ve researched us politics throughout the year, and man the level of corruption makes me sad, on a side note, I was rooting for bernie sanders.
SILENT FLASH so you like the old rich white boomer telling you to share instead of the rich white boomer who worked for Obama or the rich white boomer who said mean things.... you proud that you told us that for no reason?
Capitalism works as long as you have the resources to work with it. If you don't (example, you live under a country that has been screwed by another in the past example Honduras), you are f*cked since minimum wage works won't exactly allow you to work with capitalism in your favour
You forgot when United Fruit co. Overthrew the Guatemalan government “If I had a nickel for every time a banana company overthrew a Latin American government, I’d have 2 nickels. Which isn’t much but it’s weird that it happened twice”
Bruh, if I had a nickel for every time the U.S. overthrew a democracy and installed a brutal dictator that went on to commit genocide, I'd be able to buy a five story mansion with a new sports car.
I dunno, coffee is in demand from good places like Costa Rica instead of shitty, obviously-fronts-for-traffickers plantations in Guatemala and that one place that hasn't had a central government since they started exporting. And mint is always in demand in India and China, those bastards have loved it since the start of history.
Fun fact: here in Colombia the United fruit company massacred a bunch of their employes I can’t remember the details but that story is very well known in the country
It was probably a protest. I think it was they asked the US governement to send aid and they sent troops to disperse the crowds. Then the colombian government brought in their troops. Shit happened and they had their own mini tamenin square (fuck idk how to spell but the chinese one) incident.
SiberianPineapple what the hell does this mean? If the comment wasn’t about the video, it would be completely irrelevant, making the ‘comment’ feature completely useless. Next time, think it through before you try to criticize someone.
Don Rodrigo Biolador yeh it's because there were a bunch of natives who were invaded by the Spanish and then mestizos commit horrific atrocities against them and then the US government give their governments money to slaughter innocent people. the end
@@bezukaking6860 did someone say...BASTOGNE!? *CRACK OF THE LIGHTNING SPLITTING THE GROUND* *THUNDER IS SOUNDING, ARTILLERY POUNDING* *WRATH OF THE NAZIS CAST ON BASTOGNE, FACING THEIR FORCES ALONE*
If I had a nickel for how many times I’ve been woken up after falling asleep to UA-cam by Sam playing Dwight Eisenhower and screaming “COMMIE!”…well I’d only have two nickels but it’s strange it’s happened twice
I told my government teacher "hey did you know that president Eisenhower killed a South American government leader because a banana company bribed him to do so" and I have never seen a more confused man in my life Edit: I now know it's Central American, not South American
Bro, I am from Honduras, and I almost jumped when I saw my small bananan country being mentioned at all in one of my favorite youtubers. Excellent video man, history was a bit fuzzy in the Manuel Bonilla part, but overall exelent job. Greetings from Honduras
I can never enjoy a banana the same way again. This partly explains to me why Bananas are so cheap despite the fact that they're tropical fruits that need to be imported. They're way cheaper than apples and locally grown fruits.
Thank god I live in a tropical place where bananas are grown in my back yard which tasts really good as i tasted dole and chiqitua bananas which kinda looks skeptical.
@@Vichu. Once I lived in a house in which we had a rare breed of banana tree growing in the backyard. Auntie called it 'Bread Banana' (because it was big and did looked like a bread and could be roasted)
The US has never been against dictatorships. They're for dictatorships as long as the dictator is convenient and aligns with the US. For example, the US was friends with Franco because he was anti-communist, even though he was a fascist dictator. I'm convinced that if WW2 never happened and Hitler was in charge of Germany during the Cold War, the US would have been allies with him because he was anti-communist.
Well, that's not really a hypothetical. The Western Allies turned on the Soviet Union almost immediately after the Second World War. In West Germany, many Nazi officials were pardoned during the 1950s, if they had been persecuted at all (a lot of them even stayed in politics, just in other established parties). An independent Germany rising to the ranks of Britain and the USA by conquest of Eastern Europe might actually have been too much of a risk for those established empires, even though the anti-communism of the Nazis was welcome.
A small but noteworthy portion of the US population wanted to side with Nazi Germany...sooo. It was closer to happening than many people nowadays want to admit. You gotta remember that neither America nor Britain won the war, it was really the soviet union. On sheer number of soldiers, deaths and resources, at least in the European and african campaigns, the Soviets won the war, and because the pacific campaign was smaller, they won it over all.
Dude, I have been watching your videos for a while, and they have given me stuff to talk about to my classes. I taught a whole class about the Yule Lads thanks to you, and just this week, I learned all my little dudes about the banana republics. Thank you!
You know where their interests lie just when you know this isn't shown in schools all around the globe, not even on the countries this affected directly. All bought and owned by the same kind of people that did this. Now they are more subtle just not telling the full story and paying for politicians and media to pit people against each other. Nothing new...
@Big Yoshi Kim could easily have been in fifth grade 3 years ago. Sure if abiding by rules exactly Kim would have to be at least 20 now, but lots of kids ignore the whole “you have to be 13 to make an account” thing.
Missed you, Do this : Suez canal crisis 1956 while you at super powers not being very freedomie.. or to shift gears, you can talk about 'Terra nullius' areas :)
A suggestion for your future videos would be to leave your references in the description. A lot of the things you bring up are absurd enough that I need to fact check, and sometimes I have a hard time doing so.
Step 1: Grow Banana
Step 2: Sell Banana
Step 3: Kick out the entire governement using an army of hired mercenaries
Step 4: Profit
Step 6: Create a Intergalactic Banana Empire and the reshape the matter of the universe into one massive Banana.
step 8: build a banana fueled time machine to travel back in time to 1900 closing the loop to gain more profits in the past and repeat step 1.
Step 4: defenestrate yourself
Step 9: Become banana king and rule all bananas
Fun fact: Dole was also partly responsible for the coup the overthrew the Hawai'ian monarchy and annexing into America. This time for pineapples
Pineapple republic, as a mexican I was not aware of that hiden part of hawaiian story, I felt upset when reading how it ended I related somehow to being under control of a goverment ruled by someone who does not even care about you and not being able to do a thing to change it, sadly thats how many people lives nowdays, we never learn.
As a person living in Hawaii for all of their life, I am internally screaming
Great, now a want a banana
@@FisherStAmour-xl4qz looked it up, my bad it was an anachronism. Sanford Dole forms the coup government in 1894 mostly in service of castle & cooke holdings before the foundation of the Hawaiian Pineapple Company in 1901. So it's the other way around Dole lead a coup in Hawaii and then used the resulting power to grant a monopoly to his cousins Dole Fruit company after it was founded.
*insert Bob Dole jokes*
I can just a imagine Sam screaming into his mic “COMIEEEEE REEEEEEEEEEEEEE”
*REEEEEEEEEEEE*
Gunshots screams explosions
WORLD STAR!
КОММУНЯКААААААА
That bit made me lol
one of the wildest parts of my childhood was going to the children's museum and playing in the part where you could pretend to be a labourer in a banana plantation only for my grandpa to start spouting war stories his father told him about the actual banana plantations
gotta indoctrinate the youth
Sounds like something Larry David would do.
The banana doesn't fall too far from the tree
you’re not gonna believe this but the youtube app asked me how I feel about your comment with a few pictures of smile faces like they have at the doctor when they ask you how much it hurt when you’re a kid
@@Menace0 how happy or sad does it make you that i played in a simulacrum of a banana plantation while my grandfather imagined how his life would've gone if he had gone off to work at one as a young lad instead of staying in his family home and eventually marrying
My mom and grandma grew up in Guatemala and i remember my grandma telling me their president died over bananas i was very confused
CaliJLMN Id be too friend, I'd be too
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
CaliJLMN I guess Guatemala’s government was pretty “bananas” ;)
Show this video to them :)
potassium poising
Imagine being Sam’s neighbor and you just hear him screaming “COMMIEEEE” at 2 in the morning
"I think the neighbor is having a ptsd episode, should we do something?"
"Nah hes just recording a video"
Made me laugh
That would be a huge pain in the ass to explain, why were you screaming "CUMMIE" in the middle of the night.
My neighbors probably relate
3:01 here
Me every time I watch this video:
"Oh Eisenhower!"
*Set volume to 50%*
Yes
*100%*
RRRREEEEEEEEEEEEE
COMMIEEEEEEEE COMMIEEEEEEEEE
c o m m i e
Colombian here! Because of the United fruit company, a lot of people here died just because they wanted basic human rights, in our History classes we called it "La masacre de las bananeras" the translation is something like "Banana Massacre"
✨Imperialism is the highest stage of capitalism✨
@@cozmoknotCOMMIE COMMIE
ColOmbia*
@@MrMG-il5hv
In One Hundred Years of Solitude, Garcia Marquez retells that episode in the "magic realism" style, I highly recommend it.
@@cozmoknotloser
Nations are temporary, Potassium is forever.
-Sun Tzu, The Art of War
"All warfare is based
"- Sun Tzu
Nah nah, Human rights are temporary, yellow is forever
-literally most capitalists if they got the chance *cough cough* nestle
But, doom is eternal
Sun Tzu once said that
And I'd say he knows a LITTLE MORE about fruit harvesting than than you do, pal, because he INVENTED IT!
United Fruit Co. literally has a gun in their logo, not exactly subtle guys..
Nah! They seem like good folk.
@@GhostyHomie what do they have on you
@@Vanishingink4 his family
@@Vanishingink4 They threatened to cut off his banana
@@boney2982 he should realize they are holding him back
TRADE OFFER!
I receive: Banana.
You receive: Military dictatorship
*[ACCEPT]* [DECLINE]
[ACCEPT] [USA "freedom"]
Do you want a banana? Peel it down and go mmm-mm-mm-mmm. Do you want a banana? This banana for you!
@@SnepBlepVR Tonight we dance around the flame. This banana make you go insane
[ACCEPT] cus I love banana
Fun fact: the Chiquita Banana company tried to assassinate my Abuelo when he advocated for worker's unionization and rights in Honduras during the 20th century! So not only did they kill leaders, they didn't hesitate to kill anyone who even considered talking back! My Abuelo eventually immigrated to the US for asylum, and continued to advocate for unionization where they couldn't kill him as easily, haha.
Your grandpa is a hero! Salvadorans and Hondurans forever stand united against imperialism.
Chiquita banana plead guilty in court to supporting a terrorist organization recently
Jee wtf. fr.
yeah coca cola did the same thing
@@anthony_de_pazI’m sorry but the idea of a American prison being safer then Honduras is pretty funny
COMMIE!!!!!!
COMMIE!!!!!!
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
World Star!
Neiroe */pol/
My school is named after this guy
There's one in my district as well.
Which one? Mine is in NJ
Guatemalan president: Introduces basic human rights
Banana industry: "So you have chosen death"
Literally
666 likes, can’t break that unholy perfection
Banana Industry: “That isn’t very cash money of you”*
So you have chosen *COMMUNISM*
*COMMIE*
*COMMIE*
*REEEEEE*
My history teacher played this in class. Truly legendary.
Good teacher
A teacher willing to show the truth in history
Dont tell the superintendent. . . . Thats how you get fired for being a good guy. School isent about learning, its about programing. And we dont wanna program our kids to think the adults make mistakes that alter the world on a military scale. Just business
Donovan my man you hit the nail on the head.
Even with the cursing? wow im surprised
🫡
"The nanners must flow" is an incredibly apt reference. Well done.
"I conquered Nicaragua for United Fruit." - Smedley Butler, most decorated American soldier at the time of that quote. War is a racket.
Marine*
Doesn’t have much to do with anything but I had just read about Smedley yesterday. Apparently he was hired by all these businesses to overthrow FDR in the 1930s and help them install a dictatorship instead. He told the president instead. The coup was prevented and no one was prosecuted. Butler hated his life, denounced capitalism and labeled himself a “racketeer for capitalism” for decades. Roosevelt himself was viewed as a Communist by many of these businessmen. Butler was a Roosevelt supporter though and these businesses were idiots for trying to hire HIM of all people to lead their attempted Coup. The entire thing was ridiculous if not a little scary.
@@israeldelarosa5461 Jonathan Katz has just written a book about Smedlsy Butler and his era called Gangsters of Capitalism.
General Smedley Butler USMC
War isent about profit
Thats why we invaded Iraq, cuz they "knocked 2 buildings down" so we took their oil fields for almost 11 years and raised the price of gas back home. . . . . Wait a second
Sam O’Nella: **Screaming Commie into his mic**
Neighbors: “Yeah, hey 911?”
Rich people call in the army and decide to overthrow the government?
Replace the word Banana with Sugar Cane, and you have the history of Hawaii.
No the annexation of Hawaii was far more complicated, theirs a video by Knowing Better who goes far more in depth than I ever could
P.S he's from Hawaii
God Emperor Huey Long w o o s h
Thought it was pinapples
Aloha!
Josh Barnes depends on the island but basically the same. Dole basically owns one of the Hawaiian islands and uses it as a large plantation
Nothing on UA-cam really summarizes the Red Scare era of American history better than 4:33
COMMIEEE COMMIEEEE WEEEEE
*looks at the sticker on my recent banana bunch *
"dear god, its CHIQUITA"
Even when it's not, it probably still is.
OOOH BLOODNANA
"Holy shit, you actually did it."
"WORLDSTAR"
@FEM buckaroos
Not very imaginative just quoting the vid
5 min before
COMIEEEE
COMIEEEE
Go get em
rEEEeEeeeee
@6Sarcasm._.Lemon9 not very imaginative just saying what I am doing
@6Sarcasm._.Lemon9 not very imaginative just saying what I'm doing
Fun fact: the founder of dole actually took part in overthrowing the monarchy of Hawaii
Why not play imperialism when you got a gazillion dollars
Yeah I knew that
USA is like father, like son. Britain must be proud. After all, brits distabilised The chinese empire with drugs back in The Day. Just because tea sellings were regulated.
English speaking countries are The wackiest imperialists now that i think about it.
@@brok56 The funniest part is how the US likes to make Britain the bad guy in everything, but conveniently forgets segregation, the over throwing of governments in the name of profit, etc etc
The Dole Sam talks about in this video, Sanford B. Dole, was actually a cousin of James Dole, who helped create Dole Food Co. Not the same guy, but related.
In Colombia, there's a similar story. In 1928, workers of the banana plantations were protesting against the terrible working conditions. After weeks with no agreement due to the United Fruit Company refusing to negotiate, the conservative Colombian government sent the army to kill the protesting workers. They were compelled to work in the company's interests because they didn't want them to cut off the Colombian banana trade from major powers. This is now known as "La masacre de las bananeras" or the Banana Massacre. This is even referenced in One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez.
Just like during the Cold War, US officials in Colombia and United Fruit Co. representatives portrayed them as communist in telegrams sent to then Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg
how can you make so much money off of fruits
@@maya-cc2sx Food industry is soooo profitable because everyone love eating food. Of course fruit company make some scrooge mcduck profit.
@@renlevy411 why are the farmers so poor then
@@maya-cc2sx Do you watch the video? Because that how Capitalism worked. That what happened when labor right doesn't exist. There a reason why life in Victorian Era was completely misarable for the Proletariat.
@@renlevy411 I did, what I mean is if fruits are that profitable why are farmers so poor while companies are rich
'that's not very freedom of you young man' needs to be on a shirt
dead nymphet so should COMMIEEEEEEEEEEEE
dead nymphet Then proceeds to back dictatorships and overthrow governments themselves.
dftba store will do that for you. please make this happen!
And wear it every time Trump does something that isn't very freedom. So basically wear it every day.
+Patrick Cahill Uh... maybe don't freeboot from Sam's videos?
That Eisenhower thing was the best shit I've seen in months
Master of Puppets
I still can't believe that we invaded ducking central America for bannanas.
Well, to be fair you guys have done way worst for way less
Lexender
Fair point.
Master of Puppets most ironic part is he used a communist gun
Lexender worse*
“Oh also also...
*NANNERS* ”
“Alright I’m sold do what you want”
I can really only think of modern day Iraq Pakistan and Afghanistan, most of the others were restored
He took it out of his underbelly
I'd also give in whenever Nanners is involved, though I'd be referring to SeaNanners.
I read this as he said it 😂
2:12 this aged well
That is exactly what I thought
Same@@Ghent_Halcyon
"Dirty" *turns down volume* "stinkin" *turns down volume* "commie" *still didnt turn down volume enough*
Segeric
The second word is "collectivising" ya dum.
@@god2k562 little rude pal but be yourself
@@bobbot5400 No, I am your god, accept me or burn in the 7th gate of hell !!!
@@god2k562 NOOOOOOOOOOOOO
This HAS to be my favorite video just because of the line of "COMMMIIIEEEEEEEEE COMMMIIEEEEEEEE REEEeEEEEEeeeE"
COMMIEEEE!
@@irredeemablelover7608 *Gunshots*
Holy Shit, you actually did it.
WORLD STAR!
PLAM PLAM BAM BAM BAM
Me too
My too
Imagine owning so much land that you baisically own a country just as a corparation.
We are living in a cyberpunk dystopia owned by corporations for way longer than we thought
Welcome to Ancapistan!
@@XXStrong1 Where the money flows and your very being is up for sale!
Bro check the East India trading company
*stares in British East India Company*
I get that this is supposed to be humorous but hearing about the Banana Republics is just sad and anger-inducing no matter how it was retold.
Fun fact!
United Fruit literally admitted openly to knowingly funding terrorist militias in Colombia to further their political goals.
And not one fatcat saw a prison cell as a result. The company had to pay a measly 25 million to the US government, not even to Colombia
4:50
I just noticed, you can hear 7 gun shots, and when the corpse is shown, Sam actually drew 7 bullet holes.
That's some raw dedication.
Holy shoot its true(pun intended)
Worldstar
@@dvdlmao 😡😤😤😤😤😤😤😤😤😤😤😤
Does take much to impress you
Oooooo neat
**overtakes country over banana**
America : *that wasn't very freedom of you*
America: oh wait, it was for money? Carry on brave soldier
Also, also...naners
*Disney wants to know your location*
You sould learns grammars
I fell asleep watching Sam O'Nella's videos on autoplay, and I cannot tell you how terrifying it is to wake up at 5 am to "COMMIEEEEE COMMMIEEE REEEE" (4:44)
L
xD
LMAOOOO
thats how america works in the middle of the night you wake up to someone screeching about communists
My worst nightmare
Dwight D. Eisenhower losing it at the word 'Commie' is actually historically accurate
"Hey, that's not very freedom of you young man"
SansThe Skelebro U
Ww2 JP: HEY. FREEDOM IS GAY
Turniue is there something wrong with being gay? Huh? Are you being judgemental on what is best for whom ever decides to like the opposite sex? The freedom we have in America allows said gayness to be an acceptable thing in society because there is nothing wrong with being gay as that is the life choice that person decide to make and most gays actually find good husbands and wives you judgmental jerk
+SansThe Skelebro What Turniue is probably referencing is Sam O'Nella's sushi video.
yea
being gays fine. i dont give enough shits to think its wrong
Dwight reacting to “comie” like mermaid man reacted to “evil”
Same thing
An appropriate response tbh
mermaid man kinda reminds me of dwight d eisenhower now that i think about it
@@Ironhold_Watch based as all hell
@@indisciipline UnAmerican as hell
“Red fear and yellow love” is the most clever thing ever and I hate you for it
This wasn't just bananas in central-america, it was oil in Iran, copper in Chile, and don't get me started on Africa.
In short, it's Capitalism creating the upper class who force profit onto necessities, turning into Authoritarianism.
My dad said that when he was a Marine, his commanding officer said, "Alrighty boys let fight another war for DeBeers" right before going to Africa. Sad stuff.
My father started working for the Vaccaro line in the mid fifties, his first boss Blaise tried to bring boxing back to Nola and got in trouble via forming relationships with Frankie Carbo and Frank Costello and was removed by the matriarch of the family I think is what my dad said . Also the Nola crime commission had a public forum regarding this. He stayed until,just after Murdock bought castle and Cooke.
@@Iwanwahid1969 Well, actually
ua-cam.com/video/9-SQGOYOjxs/v-deo.html
@@Iwanwahid1969 You didn't watch a second of that video, did you?
Look, you can even mute it and the message will be clear as fucking day.
I'm actually from Guatemala and you have no idea on how much that impacted my country. We are still not recovering from this, as a matter of fact. We are still mourning Jacobo Arbenz, as he was exitiliated from the country and never came back after 1944! Our currency (quetzal) was at dollar level, and obviously that wasn't good for them. Now 7.6 quetzales make up one dollar. And I ran out of facts lol.
Yeah, natural resources are still being exploited mainly by US companies and they still don't pay their workers shit neither the taxes they should
I'm so sorry for your country and the many others the states screwed over. Please know that Sam and I are by no means the only Americans that want to see our government right its wrongs.
🇬🇹💙
I'm so sorry for your lose. That must have been hard😢
also!! the happy meal was invented by a guatemalan woman :D
America sucks sorry bro
"He's a dirty..."
"No.."
"...collectivizing..."
"No!"
"...Commie."
"COMMIIIIIIIIIIIEE"
“COMMMIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEE!!!!!”
“Go get him Dwight!”
“REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!”
@@marvelgeek9577 *gunshots intensifies*
Holy shit You actually did it
World star
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Reeeeee
Oh shit you actually did it
This is one of the greatest videos to ever be uploaded to UA-cam! I’m serious. Everything about this video is perfect - especially Dwight Eisenhower!
In December 6th of 1928, the United Fruit Company slaughtered near 3000 workers that were on a strike near Santa Marta, Colombia. The massacre is known as the "banana massacre".
KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME KOMME
Nanners
Victor Ortiz
False. The Banana Massacre killed about 13 to 23 workers, but the number has never been verified.
The 3,000 figure was essentially invented and popularized by Gabriel Garcia Marquez in One Hundred Years of Solitude to give a greater impact to the theme of his work as it pertains to colonialism.
Nobody in it died with dignity
There was another massacre in El Salvador in 1932 which killed an estimated 10-40 thousand peasants who were rebelling against the puppet state. As for the other guy it's likely hundreds if not thousands were killed in Colombia. The government under reported casualties for obvious reasons
Therapist: Commie President doesn't exist. He can't hurt you.
Dwight Eisenhower: *internally rees*
What?
Sorry but that doesn’t exist you fucking idiot
@@user-lu3ut8ot2e its a joke....
They don't exist because they are all dictators!
@@user-lu3ut8ot2e lol
Imagine waking up at 2AM to the sounds of your neighbour aggressively screaming:
COMMIE
COMMIEEEEEEE
WRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
WRRYYYY?
MUDA!
*COMIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE*
*COMIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE*
*REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE*
Holy Shit you actually did it
*WORLDSTAR*
Kono America da!
And then the gunshots, and hearing: “Holy shit, you actually did it.”
“WORLDSTAR!”
Ok
Had to come back and rewatch this banger after watching Wendigoon
Same here.
Sam is the only person Ive ever heard use the term “nanners” who wasn’t my 62 year old dad
You haven't seen the Rugrats movie?
Somethingelseyt
Well, have you seen Sam and him in the same room?
Gasp you're right
Plot twist he is your dad
I'm legitimately setting Sam yelling *COMMIEEEEE* as my wake up alarm
Yes
Way ahead of ya
How is it going with that
@@leonardopena2673 It nearly gives me a fucking heart attack every morning, but it gets me out of bed, so it's going good
@@bellhop_phantom so it works, good thing
Take a shot every time USA starts policing governments of other nations.
I can't, Americans like me have no alcohol tolerance so id be dead by the 25th shot
*dies of alcohol poisoning*
There's not that much alcohol in the world.
@@corruptkitten1007 If the russians ran out of vodka after WWII there's definitely not enough alcohol
Dam you I died of too high blood alcohol levels
Fun fact! In Bloons TD 5, there was an upgrade for the banana farm called the Banana Republic that had the appearance of a fanciful villa with banana tree sprites! It would give 25 banana drops that rewarded $40 per pickup. It was one of the most powerful midgame upgrades in the game because of this. Unfortunately, the devs decided that angering entire countries wasn't worth the joke and renamed it in Bloons TD 6 as the Banana Plantation.
not true banna plantation was in btd 5 they just removed the banana republic step and skipped straight to banana research facility in btd 6
Intern: “Narcos..... but naners..”
Producer: “You are a goddam GENIUS.”
"But if my workers have rights, then how can I profit off of their suffering?"
Well, that's a very common thing until this day everywhere in the world.
Jeff Bezos be like
@@Hitsugix Yes, in part because of the US pulling shit like this.
Because profits are more important than basic human rights
Dude, only the rich have rights. I MEAN, OF COURSE AMERICA GIVES RIGHTS TO ALL PEOPLE! SORRY FOR MY IGNORANCE! HAHAHAHAHHA!
*COMMIE, COMMIE*
"yeah go get em' Dwight."
*REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE*
**random gunshots**
8 Gohan “holy shit you actually did it” *worldstar*
“WORLDSTAR”
yes correct this *was* a quote in the video. good job pointing it out for me, i would have missed it otherwise.
thanks from belize
Imagine being this guy's neighbor that night
I was watching this in public omfg I’m dead
The comi part never fails to make me laugh
4:44
Eisenhower went *bananas*
Out.
Leave
Go.
Exit.
Skedaddle
“Eventually the only competition was each other”
Teddy Roosevelt: *breaks down the door, Eyes glowing* “DID SOMEONE SAY MONOPOLY???”
Erm, particularly that guy is not well remembered in central america, look it up.
@jocaguz18 too lazy to look it up but probably JFK commited war crimes too.
jocaguz18 they don’t really have to be, they’re the president of the USA not the world
I mean it’s nice to be well liked but you don’t have to be loved and do great things for the rest of the world to be a good president of the USA. The rest of the world isn’t your responsibility or obligation to help or fix. The US has forgotten than since the Cold War ended. Hell even during the Cold War
Ajaws2414 I’ve researched us politics throughout the year, and man the level of corruption makes me sad, on a side note, I was rooting for bernie sanders.
SILENT FLASH so you like the old rich white boomer telling you to share instead of the rich white boomer who worked for Obama or the rich white boomer who said mean things.... you proud that you told us that for no reason?
As a Honduran I can tell...
*things have not improved, get me out of Honduras NOW*
Fix your grammar first.
@@mr.kylemiles5169 as an american you need new brains not everyone uses english all the time. Bet you dont know more than one language.:)
@@mr.kylemiles5169 their grammar is better than most native English speakers
Basically that's Latin America and the Middle East, almost all Africa. Umm North Korea, India, and a lot more of course.
Person: I’m from another country
This guy: sPeAk EnGlIsH
4:22 "Oh Eisenhower"
Me: *Immediately decreases volume*
“Hey! That’s not very freedom of you!”
-insert U.S anthem-
It the Star Spangled Banner not u.s national anthem
@@potatoewaffle932 It Is called the Star spangled banner, but it is the US national anthem
@@potatoewaffle932 Do you say "I pledge allegiance to the Stars and Stripes" instead of "the flag" while your at it?
Eisenhower:"COMIEEEEEEE"
also Eisenhower: *uses a soviet gun*
That he BOUGHT. With *MONEY.*
how much was it
That he stole from the Russians
Are u sure about that unless
COMMIE COMMIE COMMIE
@@Skulldude-yj9kg I feel like that AK is a trophy for a murder of a certain Russian soldier.
*COMMIEEEEEEEE* *COMMIEEEEEEEE*
*REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeee*
Jean Rose
Where is that profile pic from? Asking for a friend... 0_0
Tell me please... for academic purpose...
Bois sorry to dissapoint but that looks like a girl suffering from sugma
Larry The Cable Guy sugma what? -sugma dick?-
Holy shit u actually did it
i love this video, and it answers the question of “does capitalism work?”
because it does, but the real question is, “for whom does capitalism work?”
Funny how capitalist countries have higher wage than in communist country
all the other poor capitalist countries can suck it, and if they dont like it, boom, banana republic, fuck you poor people.
Capitalism works as long as you have the resources to work with it.
If you don't (example, you live under a country that has been screwed by another in the past example Honduras), you are f*cked since minimum wage works won't exactly allow you to work with capitalism in your favour
Answer, "not for you"
☝🏾✨ Bingo!
You forgot when United Fruit co. Overthrew the Guatemalan government
“If I had a nickel for every time a banana company overthrew a Latin American government, I’d have 2 nickels. Which isn’t much but it’s weird that it happened twice”
And one time it involved the Secret Service trying and failing to stop it.
what was the other one? xd
I just read that in a Doofenschmirtz voice.
you would have a lot more
Bruh, if I had a nickel for every time the U.S. overthrew a democracy and installed a brutal dictator that went on to commit genocide, I'd be able to buy a five story mansion with a new sports car.
Central Americans: “Can we please have a living wage?”
1950s America: 4:44
Nowadays America also: 4:44
They replied with a Jay Z album?
@@ThaTruFily really?
@@samd2612 Yeah literally you say social democracy and they start with the red scare.
Not changed.
@@ThaTruFily What is democracy
if you play this video at .75x speed sam sounds like a depressed fruit obsessed 78 year old unretired 8th grade history teacher
How did you discover such a thing
@@kingofkringekoc603 through playing the video at .75x speed
He sounds high
Oh my god. Thats very accurate
0.5 sounds like he is reading out loud, but its hard for him to read
6 years later and this video still makes me laugh and I remember certain parts word for word lol
4:40
Imagine waking up And hearing the person in the dorm room above you just screaming COMMMIEEE
I like to imagine it was 3 am and his neighbors were like “he’s finally done it. He’s lost his fucking mind.”
Well, I assume you’re living in the White House, so it’s probably normal for that era America.
@@Ajc-ni3xn They mean Sam recording the audio lmao
Sksksksk and i oop yeah I know but my joke doesn’t work then so shhhhhhhhhhh.
So... to be rich...
I start growing nanners and let them flow
I dunno, coffee is in demand from good places like Costa Rica instead of shitty, obviously-fronts-for-traffickers plantations in Guatemala and that one place that hasn't had a central government since they started exporting. And mint is always in demand in India and China, those bastards have loved it since the start of history.
A very sexually deviant orange okay, I'll let the costa rican coffers flow
"Beyond every great fortune, there is a crime"
"bananas" not nanners
I really did not expect to be earraped when watching this.
Thanks fam
Aaron Walls lolz
Thanks for the warning gonna turn down the volume
Thx for warning
I used headphones just so I wouldn't disturb my family's sleep, but woke them up anyway with a burst of maniatical laughter haha
Salmonella never fails to deliver masterpieces
Fun fact: here in Colombia the United fruit company massacred a bunch of their employes I can’t remember the details but that story is very well known in the country
It was probably a protest. I think it was they asked the US governement to send aid and they sent troops to disperse the crowds. Then the colombian government brought in their troops. Shit happened and they had their own mini tamenin square (fuck idk how to spell but the chinese one) incident.
Fun fact, huh?
"very well known story" "I can't remember the details"
@@fumothfan9 the chinese one is spelled tiananmen
@@brownscooter9869 well he did know the story... It's just not specific.
4:43 is hands down my favorite moment from any Sam O'Nella video
*commee*
Well, only after when sigmund wanted some eel dic-
@@Blue_cheese. COMMIE!! COMMIE!! WWWEEEEEEeeeee.....!!!
@@kilssj2250 *yeah go get ‘em Dwight!*
@@Blue_cheese. 🤘Worldstar! ^_^
*COMMIEEEEEEEE*
*_C O M M I E E E E E E E_*
*_REEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeee_*
*gunshots*
_WORLDSTAR_
Hydra perez Yeah, we all watched the video.
SiberianPineapple what the hell does this mean? If the comment wasn’t about the video, it would be completely irrelevant, making the ‘comment’ feature completely useless. Next time, think it through before you try to criticize someone.
4:23
chewing spring wtf does this even mean lmao
Hydra perez yeah go get em dwight
Capitalism is fucking scary, but don't tell Eisenhower I said that
Comieeeee!!!
@@sureitscool5475 REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!
@@alexruska9390 World star!
History done right
Who was the hecking mother flipper who was the 421th like?
If you want more fun about this story, ask to internet about Edward Bernays and this guatemala operation by CIA.
the pickle lord sanchestor Hobbs s
Then they ask such things like "Why is Central America such a disaster"...
Don Rodrigo Biolador yeh it's because there were a bunch of natives who were invaded by the Spanish and then mestizos commit horrific atrocities against them and then the US government give their governments money to slaughter innocent people. the end
There is even more than that, and note how i mentioned just "Central America".
Don Rodrigo Biolador Because bananas...
Don Rodrigo Biolador
sir don rodrigo how are you doing with the plauge? I heard that it is though to recover from that
Isn't everything below Canada a disaster?
“Well I suppose it’s not our place to be policing the governments of other nations... yet”
Nanners
Also a completely inaccurate comment. Eisenhower interfered in Lebanon and in Indochina (Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia)
Came back after Wendigoon’s video and COMMIEEEE is still iconic
"CCCCOOOOOOOMMMMMIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEE! CCCCCCCCCOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEE!"
"Go get 'em Dwight!"
"RRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE"
*several gunshots later*
"Wow you actually did it."
"world star!"
DJDonkeys WORDSTAR
DJDonkeys I love when he says Worldstar
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
WORLDSTAR
Yes, we watched the video too y'know.
In the words of famed WWII general and US President Dwight “Deez Nuts” Eisenhower:
“world star”
Anthony McAuliffe was the one who "Deez Nuts"ed von Luttwitz at Bastogne
@@bezukaking6860 did someone say...BASTOGNE!?
*CRACK OF THE LIGHTNING SPLITTING THE GROUND*
*THUNDER IS SOUNDING, ARTILLERY POUNDING*
*WRATH OF THE NAZIS CAST ON BASTOGNE, FACING THEIR FORCES ALONE*
@@thallan unexpected sabaton
*A L O N E*
I refuse to be the average Jose!
Delusional Jose lol
I refuse for the legacy of KEK to not be heard
Delusional Jose I’m the above average Jose
B b but muh free market
You're not the average Jose, you're delusional Jose
If I had a nickel for how many times I’ve been woken up after falling asleep to UA-cam by Sam playing Dwight Eisenhower and screaming “COMMIE!”…well I’d only have two nickels but it’s strange it’s happened twice
"oh also also nanners" omg dead
Rip
I'm sold.
2:02
*Nanners*
So Honduras had its government overthrown. Because of fruit?
Thats bananas
Oh man he missed an opportunity there.
The nanners must flow
That’s nut
@Aadarsh Ghosh I fucking swear
You're a case of nut bread
I'm from Guatemala and this is a great basic explanation of what happened in our country. Thanks!
There were yankees screaming COMMIEEEEEE REEEEEE in the streets?
@@e.moonbound2420 Nope, but sent P51 Mustangs flying to inpire fear.
Rip
@@Meme-o-Taur You know how you can show you're sorry? Get all your friends and go vote next election.
Funny Valentine Did Nothing Wrong i hate your username
Damn, Saw you mentioned by Wendigoon and this video rocks, Gonna have to check out your other stuff now
And he doesn't question why United Fruit's logo had a fucking rifle on it
Duh, so they could hunt the bananas. How else were they gonna get them?
Nelso5000 Amazing logic 10/10.
They caused a fucking massacre in my country, so I can 100% say, it hits close to home.
Furries don't get to talk.
@GTA Spud It's a dragon, dumbass
I told my government teacher "hey did you know that president Eisenhower killed a South American government leader because a banana company bribed him to do so" and I have never seen a more confused man in my life
Edit: I now know it's Central American, not South American
Wisdom is wise NOT SOUTH, Central América
@@kbjosekiller too late for that now but okay
Wisdom is wise they didnt kill him, they just overthrew him
@@jarnodatema Once again, kinda late but alright.
@@GLD3N-THE-GREAT
He meant he told his teacher already
This video got me an A on a shity project i did like a year ago thank you Sam
"Holy shit, you actually did it.""WORLDSTAR". 4:43 is hands down my favorite moment from any Sam O'Nella video.
Bro, I am from Honduras, and I almost jumped when I saw my small bananan country being mentioned at all in one of my favorite youtubers. Excellent video man, history was a bit fuzzy in the Manuel Bonilla part, but overall exelent job. Greetings from Honduras
marco pino bay islander here!🇭🇳
Viva Honduras prrooooo! A la ve*** el pinche corporatismo gringo que termino de arruinar nuestra economia.
What's it like in Honduras?
im from El Salvador
marco pino I've been to roatan. It's a nice place
I can never enjoy a banana the same way again.
This partly explains to me why Bananas are so cheap despite the fact that they're tropical fruits that need to be imported. They're way cheaper than apples and locally grown fruits.
USA and Canada cannot grow Bananas, Central America can, America go bananas with bananas because bananas are delicious.
Thank god I live in a tropical place where bananas are grown in my back yard which tasts really good as i tasted dole and chiqitua bananas which kinda looks skeptical.
@@Vichu. Once I lived in a house in which we had a rare breed of banana tree growing in the backyard. Auntie called it 'Bread Banana' (because it was big and did looked like a bread and could be roasted)
@@KlavierMenn which country was it
@@Vichu. Brazil.
The US has never been against dictatorships. They're for dictatorships as long as the dictator is convenient and aligns with the US. For example, the US was friends with Franco because he was anti-communist, even though he was a fascist dictator. I'm convinced that if WW2 never happened and Hitler was in charge of Germany during the Cold War, the US would have been allies with him because he was anti-communist.
It's sad to say but it's true
not just that, but also they created dictatorships in many countries for the same reason
Well, that's not really a hypothetical.
The Western Allies turned on the Soviet Union almost immediately after the Second World War. In West Germany, many Nazi officials were pardoned during the 1950s, if they had been persecuted at all (a lot of them even stayed in politics, just in other established parties).
An independent Germany rising to the ranks of Britain and the USA by conquest of Eastern Europe might actually have been too much of a risk for those established empires, even though the anti-communism of the Nazis was welcome.
A small but noteworthy portion of the US population wanted to side with Nazi Germany...sooo. It was closer to happening than many people nowadays want to admit.
You gotta remember that neither America nor Britain won the war, it was really the soviet union. On sheer number of soldiers, deaths and resources, at least in the European and african campaigns, the Soviets won the war, and because the pacific campaign was smaller, they won it over all.
Also Werner Von Braun got to have a job.
Dude, I have been watching your videos for a while, and they have given me stuff to talk about to my classes. I taught a whole class about the Yule Lads thanks to you, and just this week, I learned all my little dudes about the banana republics. Thank you!
*COMMIE COMMIE*
Yeah Dwight, go get em'!
*REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE*
*Bang Bang Bang*
Holy shit, you actually did it!
*WORLDSTAR*
i wrote a 17 page paper about this thanks to this video.
thanks
thanks
Thanks
thanks
Thanksol
kaysundrah thanks
Fun fact: one of my teachers in 5th grade showed us this video and It got banned from school
I bet everyone was screaming "commie! Commie!" right after.
why dont i get a COOL teacher like you
You know where their interests lie just when you know this isn't shown in schools all around the globe, not even on the countries this affected directly.
All bought and owned by the same kind of people that did this.
Now they are more subtle just not telling the full story and paying for politicians and media to pit people against each other. Nothing new...
So your account was made 7 years ago. Your teacher showed it to you in 5th grade. The numbers don’t line up
@Big Yoshi Kim could easily have been in fifth grade 3 years ago. Sure if abiding by rules exactly Kim would have to be at least 20 now, but lots of kids ignore the whole “you have to be 13 to make an account” thing.
fun fact: zemurray overworked his workers so severely that they quite literally turned blue from the medicine they had to put on the banana leaves.
Oh also, I have a twitter now:
Https://twitter.com/Sam_ONella
Sam O'Nella Academy I clicked that and youtube crashed
Missed you, Do this : Suez canal crisis 1956 while you at super powers not being very freedomie.. or to shift gears, you can talk about 'Terra nullius' areas :)
Just a note - Fuck you. You fucked with my speakers during the Commie rant. Go fuck yourself.
Sam O'Nella Academy your 50th on treading
A suggestion for your future videos would be to leave your references in the description. A lot of the things you bring up are absurd enough that I need to fact check, and sometimes I have a hard time doing so.