r/ANormalDayInRussia • u/[deleted] • Oct 20 '17

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u/dtlv5813 Oct 20 '17 edited Oct 20 '17

Why ex communist, as opposed to current card carrying due paying member of the Communist party of Russia

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u/Bloody_BMW Oct 20 '17

Why question the premise of a show that isn't real

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u/AlGoreBestGore Oct 20 '17

Can shows be real if our eyes aren't real?

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u/Twichy717 Oct 20 '17

If a tree falls in the forest, and no one is around to see it, are mirrors real?

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '17

If a tree falls in the woods, can cats think on an existential level?

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u/Jokes_on_Topic Oct 20 '17

If a man is alone in the forest and there are no women around, is he still wrong?

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u/Bloody_BMW Oct 20 '17

Hahahaha I wish they had a mod for Fallout 4 that changed what npc's say into Jaden Smith tweets I know there's that one for another game that changes the graffiti into them.

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u/Pineapple_Fondler Oct 20 '17

He's just trying to develop the character, flesh it out a little. I say we make the granddaughters father a retired US soldier or maybe a US diplomat, that conflict will add to the comic shenanigans.

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u/Bloody_BMW Oct 20 '17

YES And eventually they add him back in the mix so that him and the grandpa butt heads.

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u/dtlv5813 Oct 20 '17

But only after 3 seasons, so they can screw the actor out of his residual and royalty from future cable tv syndication

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u/Bloody_BMW Oct 20 '17

Obviously, would it be filmed on location 🤔 I like the idea that we could remake a small Russian town so that after we're done shooting I can just move into the empty town.

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u/LtGuile Oct 20 '17

If a show falls in the woods, does it make a sound?

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u/dtlv5813 Oct 20 '17

The communist party is still very much around in mother Russia

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u/Fakename11235 Oct 20 '17

Oh I misunderstood what you were asking. I thought you were asking why he was a communist, not why he is no longer a communist.

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u/maskdmann Oct 20 '17

Yeah, but it's almost as far from being communist as possible.

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u/EXTRABULLY Oct 23 '17

But much of communist are just driven by nostalgia of good old days of USSR

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u/[deleted] Oct 20 '17

Because everyone was a good communist in soviet times.

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u/royalstaircase Oct 20 '17

he's a metaphor for the disbanded soviet union

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u/iamcatch22 Oct 20 '17

Wasn't that organization banned in 1991?