Yeah definitely worth holding on to.

Back when tournaments didn’t allow sleeves, you couldn’t use miscut or crimped cards because they were visible. So, a lot of people would throw away their “damaged” Alpha/Beta cards. Very, very few survived to today. That means whenever you encounter a crimped or miscut piece of Power 9, it’s either a fake or you’re looking at a $20,000+ bill.

Oh god o fuck I’ve been found out!

That’s pretty easy to do since I can go find pictures of helicopters being shot down and look up articles with sources talking about helicopters being shot down.

No way is Trump giving away his first edition Charizard. Trump Jr. has been asking his dad for years.

It looks like the foiling was affected by a booster pack during the packaging process. When booster packs are made, the ends of the packs are heated and then crimped to seal the cards inside. Sometimes, cards get caught or the heat from this causes misprints to occur.

My guess is the ink on the card was affected when a still hot booster was placed across it and it wasn’t caught by quality control. Often when stuff like this happens, the card/booster is thrown out, making it actually quite valuable.

It’s not going to be worth as much as a crimped or miscut card. But it’s still worth more than a regular version because the inking is off. Even better is that it’s foil.

There’s a giant black and white bar in the middle of it.

He looks so genuinely happy lmaooooooooooooo

Name one time that liberalism enabled fascism.

I was gonna say that time liberals helped former SS make their way to Chile so they could operate state orphanages like concentration camps under Pinochet. But then I realized THERE WAS A DANG REPUBLICAN IN THE WHITE HOUSE who was a conservative which is the total opposite of liberalism. It seems we have been defeated in the marketplace of ideas and have no choice but to abandon gommunism.

There were approximately 800,000 members of the SS throughout WWII. This included commandos, tank units, civilian clerks, doctors, lawyers, rifle platoons, concentration camp guards, and so on out of a total German population of 65 million. By the end of the war, several hundred thousand of those 800,000 were killed. They still murdered 17 million people as part of the Holocaust and killed millions of Allied troops. There were only 52,000 SS when Hitler assumed total control of Germany in 1933.

Even if ICE has small numbers, they get enough support from other law enforcement and the military to continue doing what they’re doing. Trump will need to recruit massive numbers if he wants to create another Auschwitz and fight multiple countries carrying out multiple genocides. But to get the ball rolling? 30,000 may be all he needs given how much automation and computerization there is. ICE doesn’t have to have dozens people going through records looking for undesirables’ addresses. One person can just pull up census data and send an e-mail.

Or told them to move their car to another part of the road by pulling forward. That’s basically what they did in Minneapolis.

Americans do not see themselves as part of the proletariat, but temporarily embarrassed billionaires. This rube no doubt concerns himself with tax rates and corporate bailouts because someday, he will totally be the CEO of a Fortune 500.

The amount of people I’ve had to explain “Yes, Muslims celebrate Christmas. It’s like the major holiday alongside Ramadan,” to is staggering.

USA economic benefits

lol. lmao, even.

lmao there’s some antivaxer who tweets all this reactionary garbage, including Kier Starmer “has legalized incestuous marriage between parents and their children.”

I have so many questions for this person. Does that mean polygamy is legal now, too? Or do parents have to get divorced first before they’re allowed to marry their children? How did the prime minister make this legal? I’m pretty sure it still has to go through parliament. Who in parliament also voted to make incest legal? If he went over parliament, how does the PM have the power to do that?

“Never believe the antisemites are unaware of the absurdity of their claims,” of course. I don’t understand who they think they’re fooling with these claims. Obviously it’s lies to own the libs or whatever. But ironically posting dumpster fire beliefs is the same as posting dumpster fire beliefs unironically.

Very good miniseries that’s more optimistic about the post-apocalypse. What’s wild is how it was written before covid (IIRC they filmed right before covid hit and released it a while later). It does have its villain, but it feels more “slice of life” with its storytelling.

It’s about a girl who is a young actress and gets trapped with her cast mates as a flu-like virus ravages the world. She survives by going into quarantine as people try to wait out the virus. Years later, she’s an adult and travels with a band of actors who throw Shakespeare festivals around a looped route. They’re trying to keep acting and literature alive in a world that has ended. The woman reflects back on her childhood and the path it took her, wondering if she would trade her life as a professional actress to know what happened to her family.

Play-DEI

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Should add Vietnam and Korea to this list.

I think they had their eyes on Iraq and Afghanistan because of previous US involvement in those places that didn’t result in total subjugation. They would have preferred Iran, but Iran would have been too difficult to invade or get the justification for to build the Coalition that helped invade both Afghanistan and Iraq.

The US had been fucking around in both countries prior to 9/11 about a decade before and never saw return on their investments. Plus, by choosing those as targets, they could go off existing intelligence and experience from previous adventurism.

The DPRK has fallen: they have become Trots.

Wait dirt owls aren’t real? :cri: