Good Things Actually Happen Sometimes

[@nerdysister]

Hey my wife and I fled to UY after Jan 6. We're legal permanent residents and I can tell you people were cheering in the street. But in fairness, the last president was actually not bad. I swear more people should consider moving. Guaranteed healthcare, college, human rights, and strong labor protections are actually worth pursuing. It's not a utopia though.

[@atm1947]

Uruguay also has legalized marijuana, relatively good infrastructure, and comparably utopian social services compared to basically every neighboring country. Uruguay is extremely unique in that its HDI is far higher than most of its neighbors as well. Definitely worth considering for those who can afford it!

[@Badbufon]

i love my country as well, we are chilling but please keep it up to yourself, the least we need is importing american brain rot, keep it secret, keep it safe.

[@Armendicus]

@@atm1947how big are the spiders tho?

[@godofthetranses3183]

Maybe if i had someone to stay with when i get there, i dont have money right now

[@themajesticspider-man6116]

​@@ArmendicusEh, it's no Australia at least.

[@educprof2160]

I always apreciated it when vaush talk about how much he believes in latinos and south americans, he has more faith in us than ourselfs.

[@camilogallardo1003]

As a uruguayan this is one the best places to live in the world, I truly believe that. Theres just so much I could talk about for hours... totally free and GOOD university education AND healthcare, one of the most solid democracies with economic and political stability, a secular state and mostly atheist population (nothings against religion per se, i just mean theres no extreme religious fanatics like in the US), walkable non car-centric cities, no mass shootings or terrorism, legalized pot (theres also no laws against drinking in public, so you can hang out with friends having beer anywhere at anytime hehe) and a much warmer culture than most 1st world countries, like its way easier to make friends that you can actually be close with.

[@mads9259]

If everyone moves there, it will quickly become ruined. It is good as long as it stays the same.

[@camilogallardo1003]

@mads9259 i guess it is lucky that not many people know about it or are willing to move here lol

[@than217]

Here Come the Guay Agenda...

[@jlp6864]

uaregay

[@Cryptic.0_o]

"Gringoid" got a belly laugh out of me, greetings from Brazil

[@afterhourscinema782]

As a dual citizen, I truly have no hope for the US but Mexico might actually have a future. It won't be easy but I'm seriously considering going back, where I won't be demonized as an "illegal invader" just because of my very existence.

[@Lean_Dankr]

That's a south park episode

[@thisdude1286]

We truly wish the best for you

[@standingoffthecorner]

❤❤❤

[@mental_kintsugi]

As a German, I'm looking forward to moving to Mexico next year. I'm so burned out, traumatized and depressed by German culture that I'm even willing to grow my own food if necessary just to get away from my "home" country's toxic culture. My fiancee is Mexican, so I won't start from zero there. Let's see where we'll end up in the long term, but the so-called "first world" has given me nothing but pain. Ever.

[@afterhourscinema782]

​​​​@@mental_kintsugiMy personal suggestion would be living in CDMX or Puebla (both which have a lot of German influence), Monterrey, or in the state of Quintana Roo. They're the safest (to MX standards) places to live in. Avoid Michoacan, Sinaloa, Jalisico, or Guanajuato (where I'm from) at ALL costs 😂 They're beautiful states but the level of violence is near "Middle Eastern war" territory.

[@TheXtrafresh]

Honestly, the most important indicator of that man's good character is his dog's demeanor. at 4:30. Relaxed, excited, open and full of trust, but still checking in with his owner about the visitors. You can hide and manufacture a lot when you have a good PR team, but there is no way to have a dog act like that other than to give it a good life.

[@Skyler.142]

*The CIA will remember this*

[@richardarriaga6271]

Might be too busy on US soil if Trump has his way

[@greenberry6019]

Next president of Uruguay: Javier Milei

[@kinaj4697]

Came here just to say it... URUGUAY NOMÁ!!! 🇺🇾

[@ValentinaMarini-c8b]

URUGUAY NOMÁ!!! 🇺🇾🇺🇾🇺🇾🧉

[@fabianlucas5423]

Vamos el Frente! Volvimos! Y que bueno descubrir otros Vaushites uruguayos.

[@OldemarFIN]

Vaush's incoming third worldist arc is a sight to behold

[@richardarriaga6271]

If he turns into Hasan Piker or Luna Oi, there must be more than microplastics in the water.

[@Anverse-14]

I wait for the time that Vaush cover Malaysia in one way or the other Left-centre Islamism is something to behold.

[@OldemarFIN]

@@richardarriaga6271 Not tall enough to turn into Hasan, it's over

[@andrewdunbar828]

A lot of South America looks just like Europe and America. Especially Argentina, Chile, Uruguay. Most of the UK doesn't look even vaguely hoity-toity.

[@Badbufon]

finally my country gets in Vaush's radar and he barely talks about it, sadge.

[@GeisaEthieneRoza]

In Brazil rn we're having a big discussion about improving working conditions, a lot of minimum wage jobs have you working a 9-5 for 6 days a week with only one day off and there's a lot of exploitation, we're looking into changing that and I hope we make progress soon :)

[@QuartzIsAnOxide]

Uruguay mentioned!

[@ValentinaMarini-c8b]

URUGUAY NOMÁ!!!!🇺🇾🇺🇾🇺🇾🧉

[@QuartzIsAnOxide]

@@ValentinaMarini-c8b URUGUAY CARAJO!!

[@345635356]

The first Chilean constitution was not horribly made, I read the damn thing, it was fine. The problem is the media is captured by right wing corporate interests and our president didn't fight back the BS as hard as he should, so a lot of people ended up believing some real stupid shit (like nobody would be allowed to own a house). Edit: Also in our recent Mayoral and Gubernatorial races the far right and a lot of centrist figures lost big, the progressives won emblematic victories, and the less extreme conservatives only made slight gains. One far right high profile candidate for governor didn't pick up a single town and lost about 30% to 70%, while another high profile conservative with all the power and money backing her had her mayoral career of the largest town in the country ended by an independent firebrand progressive who won through community work and small donor donations. It feels like next year's congressional and presidential elections are gonna be rough on the right and the center unless something major changes.

[@problemaslaptop]

Yeah, and sadly a lot of leftists on english speaking platforms went with the narrative that the constitution was horrible. This also happens with Mexican politics (I’m mexican) where mexican “leftists” often use neoliberal critiques for the government. I’m still not able to understand why this happens haha

[@345635356]

@@problemaslaptop At least politics in Chile and Mexico seem to be un a left wing upswing, so... Choca esos 5 compa xD

[@SusieBlup]

As a chilean political scientist, although I voted in favour, I've to admit that it was bad. You're right about the media being captured by the right wing though P.D. Me hizo el día que a la Pepa Hoffmann le fuera como el pico 😂

[@345635356]

@@SusieBlup Most of the proposals are ideas that work in other countries though, and most of the original stuff was either adaptations for the chilean need (for example the emphasis on water or the regional representation) or anti-corruption ideas that I don't think are practiced in too many places? Sure, it wasn't perfect, but if I recall it even had reform measures within itself. P.D.: Fue cosas como lo de la Pepa que me dan esperanza para las elecciones del proximo año, aunque... quien sabe? El guionista de Chile esta loco xD

[@diegoartegoytia2824]

Mi país mi país!🧉

[@QuartzIsAnOxide]

A few notes: Orsi did not win the first round with 89%. If he did, he would've become president then as 50%+1 vote is the given threshold for that election. He did however beat the candidate in second place by like 20 points. Secondly, the 3 point margin in the runoff is even more impressive when you take into account every other party in our country banded against him. That is, in fact, the only reason they were able to beat the left in 2019. Thirdly, and this is just a fun tidbit of history, but it is speculated this current system was created specifically to prevent the left leaning party from winning. If we kept our previous system, which had a single election cycle, Tabaré Vázquez would've won the 1999 election. In spite of that, he won in 2005 with an _overwhelming_ majority during the first round.

[@cacho707]

Además de que la coalición gastó más o menos el triple que el FA en publicidad

[@Tsumasaki01]

It makes me so happy that Vaush has built an international following. Some of these comments are from Central and South America and that's great. We can all slowly build a better world together.

[@TravisHRF16CC]

Don’t be too harsh on Chile. Some of us are old enough to recall Pinochet…that nation has come a long way.

[@jaska-jalmarixvi5757]

well known to be guilty of a great many sins: first and foremost were his human rights abuses, but was also notoriously unreliable about keeping records

[@IchorOfTheManndrake]

​@@jaska-jalmarixvi5757"Keep searching, you will find me. 😊"

[@educprof2160]

@@TravisHRF16CC you dont even need to be old to recal pinochet, the coup was 50 years ago.

[@TravisHRF16CC]

@ As a late boomer raised by depression era parents, a dad who shot nazi’s in ww2, I’m shocked by the number of young adults who know virtually nothing about 20th century history, including post ww2. That was my point…

[@someone_stole_my_handle]

Uruguay is the best country, by the simple fact that out of 195 it's the only one that is not evil (or got car-parkified by the evil ones) legit look into it I'm not kidding. I'm not even from Uruguay by the way, I'm just being objective.

[@Purplesquigglystripe]

How does one look that up? I’m not getting relevant search results

[@spencerrn]

What about Iceland?

[@epicvirgin6444]

​@@spencerrn super evil

[@ADITYASHARMA-im2qo]

They eat animals so they are evil. Animal abusers like vaush

[@kingflynxi9420]

​@@spencerrnThey have some of the best geographical engineering in the world. They're successfully redirecting the lava flow of a volcano rn.

[@eliasE989]

Well done, Uruguay 👍

[@RichardRoy2]

Might be interesting to see if the isolationism of America means actual socialist governments rising in South America.

[@Pablei73]

URUGUAY NOMÁ!!

[@gustavoardaiz2258]

Hey that's my country! I voted for him!

[@soccerruben1]

¡Felicitaciones!

[@Saliferous]

Ive been considering uruguay actually.

[@soccerruben1]

I'm definitely wanna visit there someday.

[@puffles5535]

Love from South Carolina. I wasn’t really sure who to trust this election. I’m probably more republican but I definitely am the odd one out in my family. They aren’t the most understanding with trans issues. I’m not trans but it’s like where do i even start talking about it? It’s not like we are super ultra religious but we listen to this church sometimes. When I’m not exhausted from working at Walmart lol. It’s not easy working there as a high functioning autistic dude. But I think I’m finding a good rhythm and routine. I’m about the same age as Vaush too. Not sure if he’s older or younger than 29 though. Just wanted to say I appreciate this community at times. I genuinely find Vaush and chat hilarious at times and it has been fun. I’ve definitely gotten somewhat more confident in myself. I can say that much.

[@soccerruben1]

I'm probably on the progressive end on things, but I'm glad you're here. We need an anti-fascist front more than ever. I know there are good people in SC whom aren't well represented by their ghoulish politicians (looking at you, Nancy Mace)

[@puffles5535]

@@soccerruben1Thanks my dude. I guess we just smaller victories locally. In smaller elections, hopefully we can make changes that way.

[@dairebulson7122]

It's good the left-wing Broad Front won an absolute majority in the Uruguayan Senate, but I am a little concerned they only got a simple majority in the Chamber of Representatives

[@Ukitsu2]

Never say "America" to refer to the US in Argentina lol US people are not to blame though, it's a clash of Spanish and English, same word different political and geographical meanings. Also, we don't say "Spanish", we call our language "Castilian". A few other countries do it, too.

[@themousemage]

How is "Castilian" vs. "Español"?

[@Leadlight280]

​ @themousemage "Castellano" comes from Castilla, an old kingdom that's now in Spain. It's the "Spanish" to Spain. Usually people call only Spanish Spanish Castellano.

[@cacho707]

Yo digo Español o Castellano, según con qué pie me levanté, la verdad. También hay mucha gente que usa "Americano" para hablar de estadounidenses (pero no "América" para hablar de EEUU, porque América es América y que estos gringos se dejen de joder, viejo)

[@Ukitsu2]

@@themousemage Almost always the meaning is exactly the same. Only linguists (and the like) need to know the differences in certain contexts. I think the reason some countries call it "Spanish" and others "Castilian" is because of the first Europeans that got to those countries back when they were Spanish colonies, the Castilians called it Spanish and the people from the rest of Spain called it Castilian (lol); that was because back then Castile was trying to impose its language in the whole kingdom. In my case, I feel like a foreigner in my own country if I say "Español" instead of "Castellano", I'm just too used to "Castilian", but both are perfectly fine. To add more to the mess, I'm 25% Spanish, I had a grandfather born in the heart of Castile, so I'm failing at my ancestors' imperialism because I never use "Español/Spanish" to refer to the language xD Like someone said, it's more of a feeling... and messy human History.

[@justifaiz8313]

URUGUAY NOMAA

[@ValentinaMarini-c8b]

URUGUAY NOMÁ!!!!🇺🇾🇺🇾🇺🇾🧉

[@fabianlucas5423]

Yo pensaba que era el único Vaush fan en Uruguay!

[@kinaj4697]

​@@fabianlucas5423 jajaja también estaba en la misma xd

[@AlexDeLarge1]

Uruguay is the most developed South American country. I would love to live there, looks lovely.

[@aguspuig6615]

3:20 Tbh Ibero-America, wich is what it should be called because Latin America was a term made up by the french is more full of old architecture than the US. Because love or hate the Spanish we actually did go ahead and built alot of infrastructure back in the day instead of genociding everyone and living in wooden homes

[@alaeus2310]

To be fair you did that in the areas where colonizers went to live…after the natives were genocided that is. Let’s not pretend Spain was a better colonial power than the UK now. It was way worse in many ways.

[@MohammedAli-hl4mr]

@@alaeus2310true but not when it comes to settler colonialism

[@cacho707]

Uruguayan Vaushites rise! ¿Hola cómo andan?

[@chrisvisser-fee2631]

Vaush discovers that North and South America were colonised at the same time

[@thaenaa]

I like when good things happen!

[@theuscivicsnerd7070]

I visited Colonial Del Sacramento in 2019 and fell in love with it and want to see more of the country. It is one I considered a lot after this election because of the good quality of life it has afforded people. Good HDI, liberal democracy, legal weed, good social services, secular, LGBTQ rights. I also in my travels just found women from Uruguay to be really pretty but that’s not the primary reason I’d move somewhere.

[@whatthefoxsays1657]

Common Uruguay W

[@goldegreen]

W Uruguay

[@coldsoupwithsalt]

Uruguay and Mexico: Spongebob and Patrick running outside The United States: *Squidward*

[@lmcdms]

good video vaush, havent watched it, but good voice you have

[@ValentinaMarini-c8b]

Eyyy my country gets mentioned!

[@HF7-AD]

Holy shit Bösch reacted to Uruguay news, Yamandú is pronounced Sha-man-DOO, and the left wing in Uruguay is kinda weird, because you have people like José Mujica driving his VW beetle and in the same party you have Tabaré Vázquez calling George W. Bush to back him up on a potential military conflict with Argentina

[@peterrj1973]

well uruguay left isnt really left is more of a center at least if you ignore mugica that was still a fascist proxy supporting venezuela and cuba

[@kingwokester7324]

U R GUAY -Homer Simpson

[@Nickelodeon81]

Can't wait to see who Rand McNally vote for.

[@gf2245]

Uruguay noma

[@ValentinaMarini-c8b]

URUGUAY NOMÁ!!!!🇺🇾🇺🇾🇺🇾🧉

[@frostbluez]

Me expecting good news only to hear it’s about a country I’m not even sure exists

[@anthonyrowland9072]

Bridge the Darien Gap and unite the Americas!

[@Cerafem]

Gringx

[@Radar_of_the_Stars]

uruguay is just built different, better some might say

[@NoodleBerry]

In Canada most ppl also tend to prefer "the us" to "America"

[@justinmiller1118]

New England too! I always used “the US” to refer to my country.

[@melodymsg]

As a latin american I agree that we must take more pride in ourselves

[@toeornottoe4951]

Look at Australia it will probably give exactly the same vibes as the USA

[@bettyspag_]

Nope, the vibes are pretty different

[@hypercube8735]

Canadians also call the US the US/United States/The States rather than America, for the most part (although we do call people from the US "Americans" instead of "United Statesians" or anything like that).

[@andrewdunbar828]

Mexico is also Los Estados Unidos.

[@thehatertatertotautobot2526]

I just realized the pixelated start is apart of the intro edit...I've thought...for what must be YEARS by now, that it was just the YT encoder pooping itself...I'm so dumb

[@KermitDominicano]

¡Viva Latinoamérica! Waiting for the day the Dominican Republic follows 😢

[@shamefulbrainbot4742]

AGUANTE ORSI PAPAAAAA

[@kennethferland5579]

If we had just called the 'United States of Appalachia' their would be no confusion. And it would even have made SENSE as theat mountain range litterally connected all the 13 colonies.

[@captainwilliam3920]

For a minute, I thought Uruguay was one of the Central American countries 🤦

[@AD-ub7ly]

dude....

[@ojisankusai]

I've always used the term "United States" or "the U.S." to refer to, y'know, the United States of America instead of "America". I just always assumed that the basic fact that there's more than one "America" is self-evident and that people in the rest of the world could possibly be thrown for a loop without being specific. I dunno, I guess that makes me the pretentious ass.

[@conradodeleon1354]

Esto es frente amplo papu

[@aliasalias8681]

The title of this video is incomplete. Good things actually happen sometimes, so terrible people can turn them to ash.

[@jesuschristthesecond]

Not for long.

[@DrunkedOwly]

A lot of people here refer to people from the usa as estadounidense (which roughly translates to unitedstatian) or, in english I call you usans

[@gnaarW]

Sounds like the Marines will have some jobs to do soon...

[@Mark-Catz]

The US is only similar to Latin America in bad ways like wealth inequality, violent crime and public transport, not so much the fine colonial architecture and people being generally friendly.

[@megabyte2695]

Insert vaush meme

[@Tester-sh1mn]

I thought that dude was Jordan Peterson for a sec.

[@patriciahammondsongs]

Reasonably certain Vaush meant "ponce" not "nonce" but can't be sure.

[@FernandoTorrera]

Mexico is the future

[@lannynavitka8949]

Latin America has a vastly superior education system.

[@erlinggaratun6726]

Hold on to that america in your head. It would be nice to know it exists somewhere...

[@Commander_ZiN]

Buying influence?

[@artworx12]

Non-Clomen-ture 🤣

[@terolaitanen]

South America economically and society wise between 3rd world and 1st world and the vast majority of people live bad conditions. Crime is high, corruption is high, police etc. are not trustworthy and so on. People are hungry for change and getting things better. Here in west, most of the people are having it just fine and they don't really care, there is no passion for movements to etc. It requires a breakdown of the society to get people really interested on politics again.

[@souls2]

Nonclementure

[@LoomingDisaster.]

Hey I know that place, I live there

[@ValentinaMarini-c8b]

URUGUAY NOMÁ!!!!🇺🇾🇺🇾🇺🇾🧉

[@alfonsotesta1781]

As an Uruguayan, i dont know shit about my own country politics, its hard to like the Frente Amplio because they made way to many comments on support of Maduro, and mujica bragged about robbing banks saying its the most beautifull thing because everybody respects you, buuut, still better than the right wing parties here so i see this as a win Aguante uruguay papá

[@peterrj1973]

esa es la cosa no, el 90% de nuestra izquierda son proxis fascistas, kichner apoyo a maduro, de hecho el cambio una deuda con el fmi a largo plazo a un 3% por una deuda a corto plazo con venezuela a 10% por lo que no son buenos, todo lo contrario

[@no_name4796]

Miao

[@jingbot1071]

South North America sounds cool. I mean, I'll be dead, but hopefully some of y'all will escape fascism and live a great life

[@darkpandalord3844]

Good things happen? Lies.

[@NotSure-e8z]

Better time than ever to leave the USA I guess.

[@endplanets]

In English we use 7 continents but in Spanish its 6. So we can proudly tell Mexicans that its culturally insensitive for them to not call us "Americans" ....when speaking in English.

[@Leadlight280]

"In english it's 8 planets, and in Spanish it's 7"

[@endplanets]

@@Leadlight280 ?

[@MohammedAli-hl4mr]

@@Leadlight280that makes no sense

[@aguspuig6615]

6:50 Clasic capitalism W

[@lmcdms]

first

[@lmcdms]

I am sorry for this comment but I must do it

[@DPonce-he9ee]

Second

[@schtreg9140]

You definitely need more Pan-Americanism, but wow, you've really never been to Latin America lol. They are much more similar to Latin countries in Europe than the US. They are even more similar in terms of architecture to some central European places than to the US. Catholicism and all that. Also, you really have zero idea about how diverse Europe is.

[@Bananesko]

Hate to curb your enthusiasm but you should take a closer look to what Claudia Sheinbaum is doing with the judiciary reform as well as the autonomous agencies reform (i.e. agencies in charge of keeping the government accountable to its citizens). It's not looking good.

[@FernandoTorrera]

I’ve heard that’s fear mongering and she’s trying to run out corrupt politicians

[@ADogNamedElmo]

Lula is NOT a leftist

[@Leadlight280]

What is he?

[@c.h.n.j.5302]

i refuse to believe anything good ever happens

[@anleashed69]

Brazil is going full right wing again next election, don't hold your hopes for them.

[@chrisvisser-fee2631]

Vaush discovers that North and South America were colonised at the same time

[@anthonyrowland9072]

Spain=Britain Portugal=France

[@peterrj1973]

@@anthonyrowland9072 you know that literally 1 third of USA was Mexico and part of the spanish colony?

[@anthonyrowland9072]

@@peterrj1973 That has nothing to do with what I said...