Some things will never change
this post was submitted on 27 Dec 2025
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"Bean mexico" how much beanier could a Mexico get??
Lmfao European Mexico
You might get me to load up vic3 again to make that happen
My take is that he's a libertarian and everyone telling themselves he's not is just 100% COPING
He runs AND SEEMS TO OWN a self storage service, possibly THE most libertarian coded business you could own. Honestly that'd be enough to clock him as a libertarian if it weren't for all the IOUs and shit he's concerned about mid apocalypse
I'd have thought Big Tech was the most libertarian coded business - Manousos comes across as more of a devout Catholic, with his icon of the Lady of Mount Carmel in his MG (also the patron saint of the Colombian police force, maybe a hint to his backstory) and taking the commandment "Thou shalt not steal" to it's logical extreme.
The whole show is packed with allusions to Christianity (the hive abandoning Carol for specifically 40 days, Zosia taking her to a high place to go trainspotting later like the Mount of Temptation, Manousos referring to the hive as evil like the demons Legion, Kusimayu abandoning a lamb after getting joined, etc.)
I disagree. The most libertarian coded business is used car dealership!
pawn shop
He's absolutely a libertarian crank. I actually think the entire show is based on Anthem, a novella by Ayn Rand. In Anthem, the not-too-distant future is a collectivist dystopia where the word "I" and the concept of individuality are banned (lol), and it's up to the freedom-loving individualist of a protagonist to set the world right by waking up all the communist sheep
The biggest mistake the Soviet Union made was stopping at Berlin.
The second biggest mistake the Soviet Union made was teaching Ayn Rand to read and write.
Arguably the most Colombian looking man of all time
y'all are making me think of that King of the Hill bit where Cotton immediately clocks the Sousanousinphones as being Laotian
I just personally know a lot of Colombian guys who look very similar to him lol
Im not saying you're wrong
what ocean?
iirc the Plurbs mix up using tú and usted with Manousos too which is weird since they’re a hive mind and you’d think they’d all be consistent with it
Says a lot about Vince that all three of his shows take place in New Mexico and he can’t get the Spanish right in any of them
Tbh, at least they hired a native latinamerican, with native Spanish, instead of pulling a Gustavo Fritz is actually chilenean that never said weon once in the entire show.
From what I can recall his Spanish sounded like what the Nasonex bee would sound like speaking Spanish.
The actor took a fair crack at it but it was bizarre to hire a non-native speaker for the role in the first place
He’s doing a better job than Gus Fring at least.
Hey Sleve, you still in touch with Bobson? That fuck owes me money.
the show has never once stated he's paraguayan
It is explicitly stated that he lives in Paraguay, we also see that he either owns or manages a business in Paraguay. His ethnic identity is not explicit in the show though.
i thought i had read somewhere that the character is colombian? i don't listen to the bravo vince podcast so maybe i just hallucinated that.
I didn't watch the movie, I just saw a clip making fun of that part
i doubt the national origin of any of the characters will matter besides carol being shitty because she's american, but bravo vince if whatever colombian diaspora exists in paraguay is actually a detail that matters somehow.
actually a detail that matters somehow.
Oh people are going to make it matter because god forbid a dress just be blue and not part of an author's masterful planning
The character lives Paraguay, and they are never referred to as Colombia as far as I remember. But he could be a Colombian-Paraguayan.
Yeah I too read somewhere that he is a Colombian immigrant living in Paraguay. But this never seems to be made clear in the show itself.
apparently it's the show's wiki page
when he says “i am not one of them” he means he’s not paraguayan even though he lives there
Kino
According to the shows Wikipedia he's a Colombian immigrant to Paraguay.
Hotfix if there ever was one
Literally what Bince decided when the Colombian actor brought it up
My "favorite" is when they pick any ol' actor of East Asian background and cast them as indigenous American. "Oh hey Fred, you're Vietnamese right? You're perfect for this Comanche role! Call me babe!"