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Pluribus is disappointing (Season 1 spoilers)
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Manousos is a man who just saw an invading force take everything from everyone and then offer it back to them as "Charity" and refuses to take that deal. He is the only survivor with any consistent principles beyond self gratification. It isn't about refusing to harm the people who used to be, it's about the blob not getting to dictate the terms, something he made abundantly clear when he directly told you that was what he was doing, before burning his car rather than have them transport it.
He will gladly threaten the blob, he will gladly harm the individual parts of the blob, because they are part of the alien invasion, but he won't let them give him what used to be others because if he takes it he is tacitly accepting that the world is theirs to give. If he pays, if he does it on his premises, then he is not accepting that this is their world. It is still the world of humans, and he will follow the rules of humans.
It isn't super profound, like he just out says it.
that's libertarian nonsense!
Yeah but at least he's being a morally consistent libertarian, which basically makes him not a libertarian.
I think someone with his actual worldview would accept he has to use the resources at his disposal to defeat the invaders, but I get him not wanting to accept their help because he's suspicious it's all just a trap. Like if he actually took Carol's word at face value he'd know they can't lie to him, but he continues to think they're trying to trick him.