The Saudis or some other players will buy most of them. Change my mind. I cannot believe that even his most rabid followers will be dumb enough to buy this shit.
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That's what I try to understand.
For me all that baseball cards collections and superheroes is too ridiculous even for money laundering scheme.
I remember how in late 1990s there was an attempt to bring that collection cards stuff in Russia, but with soccer players (soccer is much more popular here), but that completely failed. Even children didn't buy it. Fans prefer signatures of players on club attribution or photos with them, cards was something completely ignored. Same with superheroes. There are some action figures in the toy shops, but barely somebody will try to pose himself as a superhero. It just does not fit here, IDK.
That move with Trump's cards with superheroed himself looks like obvious trolling for me, insane ridiculous to be for a tiny bit serious even for money laundering purpose.
So, I'm wondering, does it looks too ridiculous for the American sheeple and/or Trump supporters, or there is some unknown to me cultural background that make this Trump move for them somewhat normal and that could be for real at least for tiny bit?
Do some Americans really mad about collecting that baseball cards, or they are just side subplots in hollywood movies to push this obviously commercial nonsense to the public?
I never met an American who collect them or told me about somebody they know who do. Some could have a baseball glove and baseball, but that mean that they just like to play a game with children f.e. I have a soccer ball too. I know some aged people have stamps collections, many like to collect coins from different countries, not like they purposedly hunt for coins absent in collection, just keep change from foreign countries in separate box. But not that baseball cards thing.
I don't care about elections in USA at all. It is not my concern, I'm not a US citizen or illegal immigrant, so I even theoretically can't vote in US elections.
My question was about cultural references. Does that thing with collection cards have some real background in American culture or it is just kind of typical marketing thing that nobody really buy?
I know people collect different things, but that things are worldwide. Numismatists, philatelists, even beer bottle lids collectors - you will find them in any part of the world. Most things people collect have some another real purpose. But what about that collection cards? As I understand they made exclusively for purpose of collecting them and have no any other use. Does that hobby really exist in US?
Thank you! :) That's all I was interested in.
The moment you said you are from Russia, I read the rest of your post in a bad Russian accent XD
But to answer your question, yes even average conservatives in America think this is dumb or haven't even heard of if.
I know, it sounds funny. :)
I was more interested about cultural phenomena of collecing collection cards. :)
Did you not collect things like football stickers for your panini book?
No. There is no such phenomena of collecting things that manufactured with single purpose of collecting here. If people collect things, that things have some real purpose.