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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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.
Must just be a cultural thing that has bypassed Russia.
Collecting things for their own sake is a hobby in lots of countries. A weird one, perhaps, but a legitimate hobby nonetheless.
I know that comic book and Sci-Fi are particularly prone to it alongside fans of various sports and movie lovers with their memorabilia etc.
It’s completely new to create political fandoms who launch such things though and, to my eye, it underlines the phony, WWF style nature of politics as theatre/entertainment.
Truly, they are watching a show and have been relegated to audience members paying for political entertainment rather people who actually have any kind of sway.
It’s sad.
People here sometimes collect very strange things for the sake of collection, like match boxes or cigarette packs. But the point is that collection items are still things that had some primary purpose other than collecting.
Even KinderSurprise toys or supermarket networks gift toys still have primary purpose as toys. I think same with comic books and action figures.
Even stamps have a value of postage payments and kind of art objects (some are really pieces of art). Interesting that philately as a hobby began to fade out when post services began to massively issue stamps more as collectable items than real use things. I think people just lost all fun of searching and obtaining rare items as it become a business targeted for collectors.
That baseball cards atracted my attention because they clearly have no other primary purpose except collecting.
May be that will be next level of politics, when people don't even need to somehow choose between empty populist promises, but just have to "collect all that politicians we issued for you just now!". :) "Look, you still miss that politician in your collection, vote for him now!". Something like that. :)