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[–] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 24 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

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

[–] maliy_yastreb@hexbear.net 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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.)

[–] ConcreteHalloween@hexbear.net 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I disagree. The most libertarian coded business is used car dealership!

[–] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 13 points 3 months ago
[–] Rey_McSriff@hexbear.net 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 13 points 3 months ago

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.

[–] Lussy@hexbear.net 20 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Arguably the most Colombian looking man of all time

[–] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 20 points 3 months ago (2 children)

y'all are making me think of that King of the Hill bit where Cotton immediately clocks the Sousanousinphones as being Laotian

[–] Lussy@hexbear.net 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I just personally know a lot of Colombian guys who look very similar to him lol

[–] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 10 points 3 months ago

Im not saying you're wrong

[–] robot_dog_with_gun@hexbear.net 6 points 3 months ago

what ocean?

[–] Sleve_McDichael@hexbear.net 17 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

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

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] The_Walkening@hexbear.net 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

From what I can recall his Spanish sounded like what the Nasonex bee would sound like speaking Spanish.

[–] Sleve_McDichael@hexbear.net 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] sexywheat@hexbear.net 5 points 3 months ago

He’s doing a better job than Gus Fring at least.

[–] Ram_The_Manparts@hexbear.net 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Hey Sleve, you still in touch with Bobson? That fuck owes me money.

[–] hollowmines@hexbear.net 14 points 3 months ago (2 children)

the show has never once stated he's paraguayan

[–] Keld@hexbear.net 19 points 3 months ago

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.

[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 13 points 3 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] RNAi@hexbear.net 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I didn't watch the movie, I just saw a clip making fun of that part

[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 6 points 3 months ago

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

[–] Keld@hexbear.net 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

The character lives Paraguay, and they are never referred to as Colombia as far as I remember. But he could be a Colombian-Paraguayan.

[–] sexywheat@hexbear.net 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 4 points 3 months ago

apparently it's the show's wiki page

[–] segfault11@hexbear.net 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

when he says “i am not one of them” he means he’s not paraguayan even though he lives there

[–] RNAi@hexbear.net 6 points 3 months ago
[–] ConcreteHalloween@hexbear.net 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

According to the shows Wikipedia he's a Colombian immigrant to Paraguay.

[–] RNAi@hexbear.net 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Hotfix if there ever was one

[–] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 13 points 3 months ago

Literally what Bince decided when the Colombian actor brought it up

[–] Chana@hexbear.net 9 points 3 months ago

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!"