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Italy hits online gambling record

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Online gambling booms in Italy as AWPs suffer

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Italy busts international online gambling mafia ring

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Italy busts international online gambling mafia ring

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Dignity Decree, advertising in Italy, Online Casino & Gambling News

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European Union Rules That Italy Can't Block Online Gambling

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Italy resorts to online gambling: Rome exploits a national addiction to solve its budget crisis.

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r/CoronavirusDownunder random daily discussion thread - 16 January, 2021

CoronavirusDownunder random daily discussion thread - 16 January, 2021

🎥 Press conferences today

State Presser time Where to watch
Victoria TBA The Age, ABC Melbourne, 9news live, ABC News - YouTube
Queensland TBA The Age, ABC Brisbane (Facebook), 9news live, ABC News - YouTube, Annastacia Palaszczuk MP (Facebook)
NSW Most likely at 11am AEDT The Age, NSW Health Facebook, 9news live, ABC News - YouTube

National COVID-19 update as of 15/01/2021

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Feeling overwhelmed?

Seeking help when you need it is an important step towards improving your mental health. There are a range of services available so you can find the support you need. To learn more about seeking mental health support, visit: https://headtohealth.gov.au/supporting-you
Source: Australian Government Department of Health


🌎 Other news

Feel free to talk about the COVID-19 situation in any country within this post and/or anything else you like as long as it is within the rules.
TYPE SUBMISSION DOMAIN
Asia 🇳🇵 - Nepal approves emergency use of Covishield vaccine / Nepal approves AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use timesofindia.com / news.yahoo.com
🇨🇳 - China reports most daily Covid-19 cases in over 10 months straitstimes.com
🇯🇵 - Japan eyes punishment for breaking COVID-19 rules japantimes.co.jp
🇮🇳 - India to send 20 million Covid-19 vaccine doses to South Asian neighbours, other regions scmp.com
🇮🇱 - Israel hits 2 million vaccinated against COVID-19 channelnewsasia.com
🇮🇩 - Instagram influencers are a vaccine priority in wary Indonesia nbcnews.com
🇹🇭 - Thailand to introduce tourism tax for every visitor, advised to legalize gambling to help stop the spread of Covid-19 rt.com
🇵🇰 - “I decided to step up”: The Pakistan woman who volunteered to help Covid victims independent.co.uk
🇨🇳 - Over 10 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines administered in China straitstimes.com
🇱🇰 - Sri Lanka s confirmed Covid-19 cases cross 51,000 adaderana.lk
🇳🇵🇮🇳 - The Latest: Nepal Seeks Early Supply of Vaccines From India usnews.com
🇵🇭 🇨🇳 - Philippines senators query government's preference for China vaccine after new efficacy data news.yahoo.com
🇹🇷 - Turkey's vaccine blitz tops 500,000 on second day of rollout news.yahoo.com
Europe 🇬🇧 - ‘Highly contagious’ Brazilian Covid variant detected in UK, says leading virologist, as South America travel ban comes into force rt.com
🇬🇧 - UK closing ALL travel corridors in bid to block new virus variants arriving from overseas / UK ends quarantine-free travel in fight against new coronavirus variants rt.com / politico.eu
🇳🇴 - Norway says Pfizer delaying deliveries to Europe dw.com
🇮🇪 - Covid Tracker app issues close contact alerts to 20,000 people in six months irishtimes.com
🇸🇪 - Sweden registers 4,703 new COVID-19 cases, 138 deaths on Friday reuters.com
🇬🇧 - Man charged after woman injected with fake Covid vaccine bbc.co.uk
🇬🇧 - New Covid outbreak at third UK immigration removal centre theguardian.com
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 - Covid-19: Norfolk and Norwich Hospital requests military help bbc.co.uk
🇮🇪 - Heartbreaking photos show patients lined up on trolleys at Covid-hit hospital mirror.co.uk
🇨🇿 - Czech Republic: Ex-president unremorseful after breaking COVID rules by visiting restaurant euronews.com
🇫🇷 - France introduces tougher Covid-19 restrictions for non-EU travellers france24.com
🇮🇹 - Italy Extends COVID Curbs Amid Third Wave Risks usnews.com
🇫🇷 - France only has enough Covid jabs to vaccinate 2.4 million people by end of February, says Health Minister rt.com
🇬🇷 - Greece may ease more COVID-19 curbs from Monday, says PM news.yahoo.com
🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 - Wales to introduce new Covid protections in supermarkets theguardian.com
🇭🇺 - Hungary could return to ‘normal life’ by summer if Chinese vaccine is approved, PM Orban says rt.com
Americas 🇺🇸 - Contagious UK coronavirus strain will be widespread in US by March, experts claim independent.co.uk
🇺🇸 - 'No time to waste': Biden unveils $1.9tn coronavirus stimulus package theguardian.com
🇨🇦 - Canada has secured more vaccine doses per capita than anyone else, but it’s been slow to administer them washigntonpost.com
🇺🇸 - Miami Mayor Wants Residency Restriction for COVID Vaccine usnews.com
🇨🇦 - Canada on track for 10K COVID-19 cases a day, measures must be ‘further intensified’: feds globalnews.ca
🇧🇷 - Health care in Brazil's Amazonas state in 'collapse' as Covid-19 infections surge cnn.com
🇺🇸 - For Los Angeles-area ambulance crews, the COVID-19 calls never stop news.yahoo.com
🇧🇷 - Brazil faces oxygen shortage as new variant spreads dw.com
🇺🇸 - Some U.S. nursing home residents face delays for COVID-19 vaccines despite extreme risk news.yahoo.com
🇧🇷 - Brazilian authorities airlift oxygen to coronavirus-stricken Manaus ft.com
🇺🇸 - New Jersey is prioritizing cigarette smokers for COVID-19 vaccines because of their risk of severe disease news.yahoo.com
🇺🇸 - LA County Board of Supervisors to consider more business closures as COVID cases surge, report says abc7.com

Some numbers around the world 🌏️

🇭🇰 - HONG KONG:
  • +38 (total cases: 9,453).
  • +0 (total deaths: 161).

🇹🇭 - THAILAND:
  • +188 (total cases: 11,540).
  • +0 (total deaths: 69).

🇰🇷 - SOUTH KOREA:
  • +513 (total cases: 71,241).
  • +22 (total deaths: 1,217).

🇵🇭 - PHILIPPINES:
  • +2,048 (total cases: 496,646).
  • +137 (total deaths: 9,876).

🇲🇾 - MALAYSIA:
  • +3,211 (total cases: 151,066).
  • +8 (total deaths: 586).

🇨🇱 - CHILE:
  • +4,468 (total cases: 661,180).
  • +75 (total deaths: 17,369).

🇯🇵 - JAPAN:
  • +6,591 (total cases: 309,214).
  • +82 (total deaths: 4,315).

🇨🇦 - CANADA (as of 14/01):
  • +7,563 (total cases: 688,891).
  • +155 (total deaths: 17,538).

🇵🇱 - POLAND:
  • +7,795 (total cases: 1,422,320).
  • +386 (total deaths: 32,844).

🇺🇦 - UKRAINE:
  • +8,199 (total cases: 1,146,963).
  • +166 (total deaths: 20,542).

🇵🇹 - PORTUGAL:
  • +10,663 (total cases: 528,469).
  • +159 (total deaths: 8,543).

🇮🇩 - INDONESIA:
  • +12,818 (total cases: 882,418).
  • +238 (total deaths: 25,484).

🇮🇳 - INDIA (as of 14/01):
  • +15,677 (total cases: 10,528,508).
  • +189 (total deaths: 151,954).

🇮🇹 - ITALY:
  • +16,146 (total cases: 2,352,423).
  • +477 (total deaths: 81,325).

🇲🇽 - MEXICO:
  • +16,468 (total cases: 1,588,369).
  • +999 (total deaths: 137,916).

🇫🇷 - FRANCE:
  • +21,271 (total cases: 2,872,941).
  • +399 (total deaths: 69,949).

🇪🇸 - SPAIN:
  • +40,197 (total cases: 2,252,164).
  • +235 (total deaths: 53,314).

🇬🇧 - UK:
  • +55,761 (total cases: 3,316,019).
  • +1,280 (total deaths: 87,295).
  • +390 (total hospitalisations: 37,943).
  • +107 (total ICU admissions: 3,803).
  • Vaccinated:
    • 1st dose: 3.2M (+316,694)
    • 2nd dose: 443K (+5,257)

🇧🇷 - BRAZIL (as of 14/01):
  • +68,656 (total cases: 8,326,115).
  • +1,151 (total deaths: 207,160).

🇺🇸 - USA (as of 14/01):
  • +234,419 (total cases: 23,852,376).
  • +4,142 (total deaths: 398,067).

States reported 2 million tests, 223k cases, 128,947 people currently hospitalized with COVID-19, and 3,915 deaths.

The bright spot is our most consistent metric: current hospitalizations. This week, they appear to have leveled off. That said, there are still more than 2x the number of hospitalized patients now as during previous surges.

Here's that weekly look. Testing data may be back online after the holidays and case data is beginning to stabilize. As noted, we seem to be seeing the first signs of hospitalizations slowing down at a national level. https://covidtracking.com/analysis-updates/soaring-death-numbers-and-highly-regional-outbreaks-this-week-in-covid-19-data-jan-14
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My life sux so much

Im 13 year old boi living in asia with my mom currently typing this secretly
Everyday i have to deal with my stupid cousin going in my room and jumping on my bed and running around and making a lot of noise. I tell him to get out but he will snitch to my mom, i feel like my mom loves him more than me. After 8 hours of online classes i play games but after some time my mom just goes to my room lays down there and she goes like "Stop playing games youve been there all day" when i was studying for 8 hours from morning. My dad is stingy he will not give my mom that much money to buy food and pay the bills (he makes 700 Euros a day that what my aunt said). He got me nothing for christmas and nothing for my birthday not even a happy birthday or merry christmas. I live in Asia and here sucks, i live far away from my family (they live in italy) i miss them and i miss italy, I only get to see them 1 month per year. You know what the worst part is? she borrows my money that i collected everyday and she never gives it back. My mom or dad wont let me buy games and when i ask her to she calls it gambling (wtfffffffff). She forces me to do stuff i dont know to do like when the first time i got the printer she forced me to print something and i never used a printer and when i said i didnt know she just got angry. I want to make youtube videos but i cant because im not allowed to use my computer just like i said before. I want to be a youtuber but i learn all these useless stuff like BIOLOGY, CHEMISTRY, PHYSICS, GEOGRAPHY. And sometimes i just want to k1ll my mom because all of this
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How r/PoliticalCompassMemes has become Reddit's premier brigade, harassment and hate subreddit. (This is why you DO NOT hang out with Nazis!)

Generally we don't call out the large amounts of brigading, abuse and harassment that this subreddit gets subjected to because honestly it is an everyday occurrence for us. Occasionally some subs overflow to an extent in other subs, it is generally just a thing that occasionally happens on Reddit. And hate groups are almost constantly raiding us to attempt to troll and abuse us, however PoliticalCompassMemes has truly taken harassment and brigading to a new extreme.
 

WHY?

1. [MEME] PCM claims that they value 'diversity of opinions', but this is an established alt-right dog-whistle which actually means that they value hatred over actual diversity. And the truth is PCM is a place where you have to be nice to Nazis but where you are actually encouraged to attack marginalized groups. And you're certainly not welcome if you think that inciting harassment, violence and discrimination against non-white people, LBGTQ+ and women is bad.
Even then their claim that they value other peoples opinions is an absolute lie, because when AgainstHateSubreddits expresses benign opinions like how we don't think that marginalized and vulnerable groups should face constant harassment on Reddit, their users begin frothing at the mouth with outrage.
This outrage is deliberately stoaked by PCM's mods who have with a single minded determination created a toxic culture of hatred and harassment in their sub. In fact PCM users have become notorious for obsessively abusing and harassing anyone who might dare to slightly disagree with them. Brigaders from PCM often take particular pleasure dehumanizing black and trans people, e.g sending us messages like "you'll never be real women".
 
2. All it takes is a quick peak behind the facade to see that image that PCM attempts to present of a wholesome and welcoming sub is all smoke and mirrors. Pretending be frenly is just part of their strategy for normalizing hatred, discrimination and harassment. Take for example their 3rd highest voted post of all time: "Never Ask An Authright why their account is 2 weeks old". 60K upvotes for a post that is a tribute to their users who go around Reddit seeking out vulnerable users for targeted harassment, these are serial harassers who end up inevitably getting their an endless stream of accounts suspended.
PCM: [+327] "Nothing is easier to replace than a reddit account. Getting banned is all part of the fun."
Not only does PCM celebrate users who go around harassing and abusing others, the fact that they give them a megaphone to spew their hateful rhetoric is in fact a source of pride to them. [HERE] another post with 6k upvotes celebrating a PCM user who goes around spamming the N word to harass other communities.
 
3. PCM also believes in any and all ludicrous conspiracy theories created by other toxic hate groups that certain "left wing" subs-without-nazis get away with murder brigading, and they constantly demand that Reddit take action against against these heinous breaches of the Terms of Service. On it's own this is immensely hypocritical of these FREEZE PEACH Warriors who often also argue that Reddit doesn't have the right to create and enforce their own TOS. So PCM's constant harassment brigades aren't just an example of their gross hypocrisy and extreme dishonesty, but it is also an example of how hate groups project. Hate groups will literally accuse others of the very things that they are guilty of!
 
If you ever want to understand how dishonest the people are who make these conspiracy theories about us are, consider this comment by moderator of another one of Reddit's premier brigade, harassment and hate subreddits WatchRedditDie:
WRD Mod: "[Claiming to be brigaded] is a common lie that AHS uses. The mods there have a particular hate boner for PCM, so they claim every other person who disagrees with them about anything is brigading from that sub.'
This is some real selfawarewolves material. Because WRD falsely accuses AHS of brigading all the time to smear us, but in the face of overwhelming evidence claims that we're lying about PCM brigading us?! Users of WRD are as hateful as they are delusional. This mod demonstrates that it is a fact that like PCM WRD is full of Reddit's most manipulative, dishonest, toxic and abusive redditors.
 
 

TROLLING, HARASSMENT & ABUSE

DeclineIntoCensorship: "If 4chan taught me something is that with enough harassment, you can achieve anything in the internet. Just takes a coordinated effort."
It's a fact that marginalized and vulnerable groups are the disproportion target of manifestly unjust levels of harassment and abuse online.
ADL: The Trolls are Organized and Everyone’s a Target: The Effects of Online Hate and Harassment
Being a member of a marginalized community makes an individual particularly vulnerable to hate and harassment online. People who spoke out against sexist, racist and anti-Semitic injustice also attracted vicious attacks, typically in response to their condemnation of hate and bias...
I think that it's fair to say at AHS we get far more users that come to this sub to troll, harass and/or abuse us then we get users looking to participate in good faith. We are a favorite target of Reddit's most toxic hate groups, and in fact a community's obsession with us is an incredibly accurate gauge as to how hateful a community actually is.
Here is 40 recent examples of the trolling and abuse that we received from PCM users in the space of two days. This is only a small selection and it is only from two days. This harassment has been going of for almost six months now.
  1. PCM: "kill yourself loser, ill give you a tutorial if you want. completely painless and works 100% of the time"
  2. PCM: "Are you really r-----d"
  3. PCM: E: "Y'all r fucking r------d"
  4. PCM: "So I think you're all idiots"
  5. PCM: "N---r"
  6. PCM: "...nothing better than hating jews tbh"
  7. PCM: "hating the jews is based"
  8. PCM: ...these guys can't even understand the difference between gender and sex... "There is no difference"
  9. PCM: "What do you mean by "women" I think OP was reffering to biological women instead of using it to describe and adult that identifies as a female."
  10. PCM: "learn to take a joke you damn crybaby"
  11. PCM: "God you guys are pathetic."
  12. PCM: "Lmao go fuck yourself"
  13. PCM: ...Like what do they gain by invalidating someone’s identity and calling it an illness?... "Perhaps protecting their children from this harmful ideology?"
  14. PCM: PoliticalCompassMemes is pretty much just a cesspool of transphobic, racist, and bigoted jokes that pretends to be in favor of all ideas. "Pretty fun if you ask me"
  15. PCM: "N---rs tongue my anus."
  16. PCM: "alt-right" It's called PoliticalCompassMemes you dumb fuck."
  17. PCM: "Black culture is extremely toxic towards young black men, they don’t have any role models other than rappers, who rap about slinging drugs, hoes, and getting money ."
  18. PCM: "Why are you shitheads so pretentious"
  19. PCM: "why we care about t-----s now? they are men pretending to be women for oprresion points. I dont' like it. All the oppresion points I have accumulated are going to waste now that they raised the price of inflation"
  20. PCM: "transphobia don't real. man is man, women is women. chromosomes bitches"
  21. PCM: ...Trans women are women... "Why do you delude yourself so?"
  22. PCM: reurope: denies Greece is violating human rights of migrants... "Greece is based"
  23. PCM: "Fuk dem jews"
  24. PCM: "Fuk dem fags"
  25. PCM: "Did you really spent your own free time on making this shit?"
  26. PCM: "Based greeks, fuck migrants and fuck turks, Inshallah they'll retake cyprus"
  27. PCM: "Yes, I browse this sub to find the most based subreddits to join, how could you tell?"
  28. PCM: "SocialJusticeInAction insisting George Floyd wasn't murdered, and that BLM is just marxism "because it is"
  29. PCM: On whether an admitted Neo-Nazi is actually a Neo-Nazi... "guess what, it’s called black humor and he isn’t a member of the NSDAP btw"
  30. PCM: "I think the jews are horrible liars and manipulators and need to be eradicated once and for all."... "Based"
  31. PCM: "Kill yourself n---r"
  32. PCM: "you dumb f@ck"
  33. PCM: "fuck you"
  34. PCM: "please tell me you arnt this r------d"
  35. PCM: "You are a subreddit of rodents"
  36. PCM: "Shut up f---t"
  37. PCM: "...you can be a bunch of t--ds if you like..."
  38. PCM: "You guys are like Karen's little devil child terrorizing all the other kids...Y'all are actually insufferable" <-- LOL
  39. PCM: "LMAO f----t"
  40. PCM: "you’re kind of a c--t, aren’t you"
 
Then there was the time that PCM joined in with a bunch of other naked hate subs during the DarkHumorAndMemes (RIP) raids on LGBTQ+ subs and targeted a user of nonbinary for personalized harassment. This was absolutely shameful.
A. DarkHumorandMemes (RIP) raided nonbinary and other LGBTQ+ communities to bully and harass them.
B. soyboys (RIP) decided to harass one of the users that called them out.
C. And then PCM decided to join in.
 
 

DOWNVOTE BRIGADES

PCM hysterically rants and raves about how they are the 'victim' of 'brigading', but the truth is that in fact it is PCM who engages in some of the most egregious examples of vote manipulation on Reddit. Not only does PCM engage in vote manipulate to attempt to bury even the mildest criticism of their sub/cult, but their users also raid in such vast numbers that they often out number the users on this sub in excess of 30:1. It has become an absolute rarity for users on AHS to have a conversation without dozens of screaming idiots attempting to dog pile them. So much valuing other people's opinions!
For example:
[+0] [39%] [69/73] /PoliticalCompassMemes trans suicide "joke": Yes of course I support the decision of trans people/only of 40% of them though | 2,806 points (95% upvoted)
 
Completely Buried
Here are 50 examples where a post on AHS was completely buried and overwhelmed by many times more PCM user than AHS users. Most of these posts never got a score above zero, so they never received any exposure on anywhere other than againsthatesubreddits/new.
  1. [+0] [35%] [140/226] Our argument for why PCM is a hate sub - in a format we know PCM users can digest.
  2. [+0] [43%] [53/80] Literal anti-trans hatespeech all over this post on politicalcompassmemes. Guess we found where all the GRU refugees went.
  3. [+0] [48%] [6/11] Open Neo-Nazi on PoliticalCompassMemes: [+4577] "The sexual birth of a white nationalist is a strange happening, but i’ve never witnessed this sort of raw power before, actually fapping to the holocaust, what a champion."
  4. [+0] [49%] [13/18] PoliticalCompassMemes: "I have no idea why anyone especially white people would want to be an officer. Literally you are going to be dealing with black people on a daily basis and at any moment you could be made into having to deal with a George Floyd then being the most hated man in America"
  5. [+3] [51%] [9/11] PoliticalCompassMemes: "You know what? Why don't we counterattack AgainstHateSubreddits? I know brigading is against the rules here, but hey..."
  6. [+0] [35%] [42/59] PCM would like to raid us if they actually get banned.
  7. [+0] [50%] [9/10] nworder has been flashing this post by PoliticalCompassMemes, shitton of racism and n-words (hard Rs)
  8. [+0] [40%] [9/11] PCM once again denying systematic racism and blaming “personal choices” for higher rates of poverty in black communities
  9. [+0] [46%] [7/9] PoliticalCompassMemes: "the problem with many of the black crimes is the lack of impulsivity control, what you can do culturally tho is for them to not resort to violence as soon as their impulsivity tell them to act"
  10. [+0] [50%] [3/7] PoliticalCompassMemes: "…what worth is it having [black] people in our countries if with them comes unavoidable social issues? White people are the ones sacrificing their security and the future of the countries built by their ancestors, why are we hell-bent on gambling it away?"
  11. [+0] [48%] [4/9] PoliticalCompassMemes on Trans People: "I genuinely can't see any way how indulging, supporting, endorsing and educating a literal mental illness could possibly be better for even the individual in question, much less society as a whole. "
  12. [+0] [40%] [2/4] PoliticalCompassMemes: "You forget that racebaiters, especially within the black community, stop other blacks from "acting white" by doing thinks like focusing on education, degrading marriage, and actively propping up these vulgar and subsidized black women as strong and empowered."
  13. [+0] [36%] [4/5] POLITICALinCELMEMES: "[Women] are so lacking in a sense of justice or empathy for men that they destroy any sense of trust that should exist between the sexes."
  14. [+0] [33%] [3/8] PoliticalCompassMemes: "Meanwhile in Italy Mussolini's grandoughter is successfull politician."... "This took a sudden turn for the awesome."
  15. [+0] [40%] [2/4] PoliticalCompassMemes: "For the most part people are still very 'don’t compare pedophiles to homosexuals!' about it. But given their ideology is literally about the absolute freedom of the will, it’s not a question of if it’ll come mainstream, but when."
  16. [+0] [39%] [9/11] PCM once again denying systematic racism and blaming “personal choices” for higher rates of poverty in black communities
  17. [+0] [37%] [3/7] defiantly not nazis PoliticaIcompassmemes
  18. [+2] [50%] [12/21] 'Haha, anti-semitism is funny and you're not one of cool boys if you don't agree.''
  19. [+0] [49%] [10/13] Pathetic user in /PoliticalCompassMemes gets highly upvoted for saying tr*** are pedophiles {also, downvote to 0 to totally prove PCM doesn't brigade}
  20. [+0] [47%] [10/14] PoliticalCompassMemes doing more "Ironic" Nazi shit including Jews-control-the-media stuff
  21. [+0] [49%] [30/54] Holocaust denial on PCM
  22. [+0] [39%] [69/73] /PoliticalCompassMemes trans suicide "joke": Yes of course I support the decision of trans people/only of 40% of them though | 2,806 points (95% upvoted)
  23. [+0] [39%] [36/42] PCM posts Stonetoss Comic edited to be queerphobic instead of racist (1k upvotes)
  24. [+0] [42%] [24/27] /PoliticalCompassMemes "subtly" adding Nazi propaganda to their "jokes"
  25. [+0] [41%] [41/55] PoliticalCompassMemes wonders why we watch them. "AHS doesn't like us because we allow right winged opinions". Guess racism is just a right winged opinion…
  26. [+0] [31%] [29/35] Political Compass Memes goes full unironic with white genocide
  27. [+0] [46%] [3/7] PoliticalCompassMemes distorting the narrative around George Floyd's death
  28. [+0] [49%] [17/27] PCM: "I honestly have never wanted to genocide Libleft and authleft as much as these past 3 months"
  29. [+0] [49%] [21/39] User fbicrimestats on /PoliticalCompassMemes: "Being racist is a valid political opinion"
  30. [+0] [44%] [24/35] /PoliticalCompassMemes is now adopting TERF talking points
  31. [+0] [39%] [14/17] politicalcompassmemes "It seems big cow inflated the numbers to get into a higher hierarchical position" Holocaust denial as usual
  32. [+0] [45%] [8/13] Racism from /PoliticalCompassMemes yet again
  33. [+0] [47%] [13/20] Ban Evasion sub for /politicalcompassmemes
  34. [+0] [43%] [20/55] /PoliticalCompassMemes casually adds antisemitism to their racist 13/50 thread: "despite being 2% of the population, (((they))) control 90% of the media". Comments at 198 and 226 points, thread at 14.6k.
  35. [+0] [43%] [15/46] PoliticalCompassMemes user flaired as an "Auth-Center" (Nazi) is posting a meme to spread the hoax that this subreddit is posting CP. Users in the comments support him, mostly flaired with AuthRight. Those who question the validity of the claims are downvoted.
  36. [+0] [43%] [14/21] Comment section on PoliticalCompassMemes post devolves into racism, anti-Semitism, and calls for AHS users to kill themselves
  37. [+0] [49%] [16/29] PoliticalCompassMemes is already accepting neo nazi propoganda
  38. [+0] [45%] [25/30] /PoliticalCompassMemes back at it with making fun of LGBT+ people
  39. [+0] [47%] [20/33] So I actually love politicalcompassmemes, but Jesus the comments are an an antisemitic shit-show
  40. [+0] [50%] [15/50] Mask-off racism from PoliticalCompassMemes
  41. [+0] [49%] [11/16] Yet another transphobic thread on PCM
  42. [+0] [48%] [14/23] PCM user claims fascism is good: "in a true unregulated free market place of ideas the fascists always win"
  43. [+0] [43%] [25/95] DarkHumorAndMemes and PoliticalCompassMemes team up to engage in blatant vote manipulation on AgainstHateSubreddits yet again!
  44. [+0] [48%] [9/22] /PCM upvotes a literal Mussolini calling her political opponent a f***ot as "based"
  45. [+0] [48%] [109/203] Another user on politicalcompassmemes call for yet another raid to harass the users of againsthatesubreddits with
  46. [+2] [51%] [14/21] Transphobic post from a year ago makes its way to pcm again, comments are worse than I expected
  47. [+5] [51%] [5/9] PoliticalCompassMemes: "...t-----s are fuck ugly monsters. The ironic thing is that traps, who aren’t t-------s do it better."
  48. [+7] [53%] [4/7] Blatant promotion of jewish conspiracies in politicalcompassmemes comment section. All with double digit upvotes.
  49. [+0] [52%] [0/2] PoliticalCompassMemes on refugees: "these scum you love would slit your throat for a shilling and you'd love it to the last moment."
  50. [+9] [51%] [14/26] Bunch of racists propagating eugenics and "racial science" on /PoliticalCompassMemes
 
Completely Overwhelmed
Here are 20 examples of the rare occasions when a posts manages to not get completely buried, but when PCM users still manage to appear in greater numbers than AHS users.
  1. [+16] [53%] [11/19] Ceoofracism1488 on /PoliticalCompassMemes: "'Society did this' not n---- and minorities being on average stupid as hell"
  2. [+16] [52%] [38/57] politicalcompassmemes is a hate subreddit now
  3. [+17] [53%] [15/25] PoliticalCompassMemes: "You exterminate an infestation of insects down to the very last or they will come back. Time and time again jews have acted as parasites, putting themselves in positions to directly influence and subvert the culture of the host..."
  4. [+22] [59%] [7/9] Archives of multiple upvoted (one exception, but still shows a point) comment threads for a StoneToss post on PCM
  5. [+23] [57%] [6/12] ''Transphobes are here to stay.'' Woke politicalcompassmemes accepts all views, let's forget about unironic calling for violence the last few months.
  6. [+18] [54%] [19/27] Yet again, PoliticalCompassMemes pats itself on the back for welcoming Nazis
  7. [+19] [55%] [17/19] /PoliticalCompassMemes post with a blatant transphobic caricature. Another instance of their memes making fun of LibLeft just being thinly-veiled anti-LGBT+ memes
  8. [+20] [56%] [12/24] PoliticalCompassMemes, as is tradition, brigades hard all other subs that point their hate, bigotry or stupidity
  9. [+38] [59%] [31/31] PoliticalCompassMemes glorifying nazism in the face of the Minneapolis protests
  10. [+41] [58%] [39/64] politicalcompassmemes posting GamersRiseUp content that isn’t a political compass meme.
  11. [+50] [58%] [41/57] PoliticalCompassMemes discusses the morality of homosexuality. "I don't need to explain to you why gays are immoral degenerates because everyone has already accepted that they are", concludes one user.
  12. [+56] [56%] [123/165] /PoliticalCompassMemes is too far gone now
  13. [+49] [57%] [16/26] “I’m a white nationalist” +155, /politicalcompassmemes decends further into being a nazi bar
  14. [+70] [57%] [70/89] /PoliticalCompassMemes' parallels with the early history of GamersRiseUp, how it's currently following a similar path, and, contrary to what you might expect, how I think the sub has legitimate potential to turn it around and become just as good as it was before
  15. [+236] [67%] [138/388] Yet another user from politicalcompassmemes calls for their users to raid this sub and spam child exploitation material. (Archive in comments.)
  16. [+739] [68%] [182/314] /PoliticalCompassMemes commenters explain why LGBT+ acceptance is dropping, citing "the sjws", pedophiles, and other strawmen as the cause
  17. [+743] [74%] [114/245] politicalcompassmemes +26 "Or I could blame AHS for actually being the autistic t****y narcs that they are." On a post that shatters the excuse of "we're being ironic!"
  18. [+899] [73%] [210/372] Your daily dose of transphobia from /PoliticalCompassMemes. Is this even a PCM?
  19. [+1055] [67%] [337/464] Some more fascist propaganda from PoliticalCompassMemes
  20. [+1438] [74%] [183/278] PoliticalCompassMemes discusses how they plan their infamous raids: "But if we plan it on discord, there would be no proof of us conspiring to brigade them ;)"
  21. [+1500] [79%] [95/176] PoliticalCompassMemes upvoting racial slurs as "a joke". Lots of mask off racism in the comment section too.
  22. [+1530] [85%] [149/267] PoliticalCompassMemes: "I think the jews are horrible liars and manipulators and need to be eradicated once and for all."
 
 

UPVOTE BRIGADES

PCM isn't just content to sit back and ensure even that even their mildest critic is silenced, via downvote brigades, harassment and abuse but PCM celebrates how they will even manipulate content on AHS via upvote brigades.  
Example 1
A. During a DarkHumorAndMemes (RIP) raid on AHS this [USER] // [USER ARCHIVE] made [THIS] thread on AHS that was brigaded by DH&M to quickly reach to approximately 40 or so upvotes in approximately an hour or so before it was removed.
B. Of course a few hours later PCM made [THIS] post celebrating DH&M's harassment brigades, and almost instantly users from PCM then brigaded that thread too.
C. The result: In less than a day PCM and DH&M upvote brigaded [THIS] // [SCREENSHOT] removed post to a score of over 400.
D. PCM then spammed trolling and abusive posts and comments on AHS.
E. PCM then ensured [THIS POST] calling out their raiding was instantly buried.
 
Example 2
A. [THIS] PCM user made [THIS] troll post on AHS.
B. Then [THIS]abusive PCM user made [THIS] post on PCM.
C. Like clockwork the PCM brigaders followed, and the post on AHS received approximately 50 brigaders from PCM before it was locked and removed.
 
 
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TEKK - Tekkorp Digital Acquisition Corp: Who's Who of Gaming Mgmt Teams!

Team has been involved in a substantial number of the digital media, sports, entertainment, leisure and gaming industries’ most significant merger and acquisition transactions, holding key positions at, and transacting with Scientific Games Corp, Inspired Gaming Group, FOX Bets, Ocean Casino Resort, Resorts International Holdings, PokerStars, DraftKings, Mohegan Sun, Caesars Entertainment Corporation, Harrah’s Entertainment, Tropicana Entertainment, Inc., TSG/Sky Betting & Gaming, Facebook, Inc, Wynn Resorts, Dubai World/MGM Resorts
Here's all the Bios. These guys are stellar! TEKK closed at $10.30 today. Still cheap!
If you don't like to read... you don't like to make money!!!!
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Matthew Davey — Chief Executive Officer and Director
Mr. Davey has over 25 years of experience within the digital media, sports, entertainment, leisure and gaming ecosystems, as well as experience in the public sector. He is an experienced public company executive officer and board member. He has served in executive management positions across the gaming technology arena. Over the course of Mr. Davey’s career, he oversaw more than ten mergers and acquisitions and over $1.2 billion in debt and equity capital raised to support the companies he has led.
Most recently, Mr. Davey was Chief Executive Officer of SG Digital, the Digital Division of Scientific Games Corp. (“Scientific Games”) (Nasdaq: SGMS). SG Digital was established following the purchase by Scientific Games of NYX Gaming Group Limited (“NYX”) (formerly TSXV: NYX), where Mr. Davey served as Chief Executive Officer and Director. The NYX acquisition provided Scientific Games with a vehicle to significantly accelerate the scale and breadth of its existing digital gaming business, including the strategic expansion into sports betting. In his capacity as Chief Executive Officer of NYX, Mr. Davey developed and implemented a corporate strategy that generated strong revenue growth. Mr. Davey shaped company strategy to focus on digital gaming supplier platforms and content that provided various gaming operators with the underlying gaming and sports betting systems for their online gaming business. In 2014, Mr. Davey oversaw the initial public offering of NYX, and his experience in the digital media, sports, entertainment, leisure and gaming industries helped NYX recognize momentum as a public company. After the public offering, from 2014 to 2018, Mr. Davey oversaw seven acquisitions which helped establish NYX as one of the fastest growing global B2B real-money digital gaming and sports betting platforms. These acquisitions included:
• OpenBet: In 2016, NYX completed the $385 million acquisition of OpenBet. This was one of the more complex and transformative acquisitions that Mr. Davey oversaw at NYX. Through securing co-investments from William Hill (LSE: WMH), Sky Betting & Gaming and The Stars Group (formerly Nasdaq: TSG, TSX: TSGI), Mr. Davey was able to get the acquisition from Vitruvian Partners completed successfully, winning the deal against much larger and well capitalized competitors. By combining two established and proven B2B betting and gaming suppliers, NYX was well positioned to provide customers with exciting player-driven solutions across all major product verticals and distribution channels. This allowed NYX to become the leading B2B omni-channel sportsbook platform in the market and the supplier to over 300 gaming operators globally with an extensive library of desktop and mobile game titles, including more than 700 on NYX platforms and more than 2,000 on the OpenBet platform.
• Cryptologic/Chartwell: In 2015, NYX completed the $119 million acquisition of Cryptologic and Chartwell. The acquisition provided NYX with more than 400 titles of additional leading gaming content, a broader customer base, and direct exposure to PokerStars and Intercasino, part of the Gamesys Group (LSE: GYS) — two of the world’s largest online casino offerings.
• OnGame: In 2014, NYX completed the distressed acquisition of OnGame, a premier poker content, platform and service provider. This acquisition provided NYX with one of the best poker products in the industry, access to several regulated jurisdictions, and a valuable talent pool that was instrumental in the growth of NYX. The addition of OnGame further established a path for NYX to continue its growth in both European and U.S. markets.
These acquisitions, together with meaningful organic growth, increased NYX’s revenue from $24 million in 2014 to $184 million annualized in 2017. During that time, Mr. Davey helped build NYX to have over 200 customers in the global gaming industry and a team of 1,000 employees. Mr. Davey’s success at NYX ultimately led to its sale to Scientific Games for $631 million in 2018.
Mr. Davey joined Next Gen Gaming, the predecessor to NYX, in 2000 as the Vice President of Technology, was appointed as Executive Director in 2003 and named Chief Executive Officer in 2005. Prior to that, he was the Senior Consultant for Access Systems, a company that specializes in the provision of back-end software for licensed online casinos. Prior to joining Access, Mr. Davey worked for the Northern Territory Government specializing in matters pertaining to the internet and e-commerce along with roles in the Department of Racing and Gaming. Mr. Davey received a Bachelor of Electrical & Electronic Engineering from Northern Territory University, Australia (also known as Charles Darwin University).
Robin Chhabra — President
Mr. Chhabra has been at the forefront of corporate acquisition activity within the digital gaming landscape for over a decade. His prior experience includes leading corporate strategy, M&A, and business development at two of the global leaders in the digital gaming industry, The Stars Group (“TSG”) and William Hill, and a leading supplier, Inspired Gaming Group (Nasdaq: INSE). Mr. Chhabra served on the Group Executive Committees of each of these companies. From 2017 to May 2020, Mr. Chhabra served as Chief Corporate Development Officer at TSG and, from 2019 to August 2020, he also served as the Chief Executive Officer of Fox Bet, a leading U.S. online gaming business which is the product of a landmark partnership between TSG and FOX Sports, a transaction which he led. During that period, Mr. Chhabra led several transactions which transformed TSG into the largest publicly listed online gambling operator in the world by both revenue and market capitalization and one of the most diversified from a product and geographic perspective with revenues of over $2.5 billion. Mr. Chhabra’s M&A experience is extensive and covers multiple global geographies across the digital gaming value chain and includes the following:
• TSG/Flutter Entertainment Merger: In 2019, Mr. Chhabra led the TSG M&A team that was responsible for TSG’s $12.2 billion merger with Flutter Entertainment (LSE: FLTR). The merger between TSG and Flutter Entertainment is the largest transaction in the digital gaming industry to date. The combination created the largest publicly listed online gaming company with approximately 13 million active customers and leading product offerings, which include sports betting, online casino, fantasy sports and poker. The combined entity includes some of the world’s most iconic digital gaming brands such as Fanduel, Fox Bet, Sky Bet, PaddyPower, Betfair, PokerStars and SportsBet. TSG/Flutter Entertainment is one of the most geographically diverse digital gaming and media companies with leading positions in the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Ireland, Italy, Spain, Germany and Georgia.
• TSG/Sky Betting and Gaming (“SBG”): In 2018, Mr. Chhabra led the acquisition of SBG from CVC Capital Partners and Sky plc, Europe’s largest media company, in a transaction valued at $4.7 billion. At the time of the acquisition SBG was the largest mobile gambling operator in the United Kingdom and one of the fastest growing of the major operators having doubled its online market share in three years. The acquisition of SBG provided TSG with (a) greater revenue diversification, significantly enhanced expertise and exposure to sports betting just ahead of the judicial overturn of The Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act of 1992 (PASPA) by the U.S. Supreme Court, (b) a leading position within the United Kingdom, the world’s largest regulated online gaming market, (c) improved products and technology as a result of the addition of SBG’s innovative casino and sports book offerings and a portfolio of popular mobile apps, and (d) expertise in deeply integrating sports betting with leading sports media companies, positioning TSG to create more engaging content, deliver faster growth and decrease customer acquisition costs.
• William Hill (LSE: WMH): At William Hill, from 2010 to 2017, Mr. Chhabra served as Group Director of Strategy and Corporate Development where he led several transactions which contributed to William Hill’s transformation from a land-based gambling operator in the United Kingdom to a leading online-led international business. Mr. Chhabra led William Hill’s entry into the U.S. sports betting and online lottery markets with the acquisition of four businesses, including the simultaneous acquisitions of three U.S. sportsbooks, Cal Neva, American Wagering and Brandywine Bookmaking, in 2011 for an aggregate purchase price of $55 million. These businesses ultimately led William Hill to achieve a leading position in the U.S. sports betting market with a market share of 24% in 2019. Additionally, Mr. Chhabra played a key role in structuring William Hill’s successful joint venture with PlayTech Plc (LSE: PTEC) in 2008. The combined entity created one of the largest online gambling businesses in Europe at the time of its formation and led to William Hill’s buyout of Playtech’s interest for $637 million in 2013. Prior to the transaction, William Hill had struggled in its attempt to establish a strong online gaming platform and a meaningful presence outside the United Kingdom.
Mr. Chhabra has also successfully completed four transactions worth over $1.2 billion in Australia, the world’s second largest regulated online gambling market, and various partnerships in Asia. Additionally, he completed several technology and media related transactions, including William Hill’s investment in NYX, where he worked with Mr. Davey on NYX’s transformational acquisition of OpenBet.
Prior to working in the gaming sector, Mr. Chhabra was an equities analyst and a management consultant. Mr. Chhabra received a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Eric Matejevich — Chief Financial Officer
Mr. Matejevich is a seasoned gaming executive with extensive experience in both the online gaming and traditional casino industries. From February to August 2019, he served as Trustee and Interim-Chief Executive Officer of Ocean Casino Resort (“Ocean”) (formerly Revel Casino, which had a construction cost of $2.4 billion) in Atlantic City, where he successfully led the management team through an ownership change and operational turnaround effort. Over the course of seven months, Mr. Matejevich managed to reduce the property’s weekly cash burn of $1.5 million to an annualized cash flow run rate in excess of $20 million.
Prior to Ocean, from 2016 to 2018, Mr. Matejevich served as the Chief Financial Officer of NYX. At NYX, he focused his efforts on integrating the company’s many acquisitions and multiple debt refinancings to simplify its capital structure and provided liquidity for growth initiatives. Additionally, Mr. Matejevich was instrumental to the executive team that sold NYX to Scientific Games for $631 million.
Prior to NYX, from 2004 to 2014, Mr. Matejevich was the Chief Financial Officer of Resorts International Holdings and later, from 2011, also the Chief Operating Officer of the Atlantic Club Casino, a property under the Resorts International Holdings umbrella — a Colony Capital (NYSE: CLNY) entity. As Chief Financial Officer, he provided managerial oversight for all finance functions for a six-property casino company with annual gaming revenue exceeding $1.3 billion, 10,000 gaming positions, 7,000 hotel rooms and over 11,000 staff members during his tenure. Mr. Matejevich led the transition effort to integrate a four-casino, $1.3 billion acquisition from Harrah’s Entertainment and Caesars Entertainment (Nasdaq: CZR). As Chief Operating Officer of Atlantic Club, he lobbied for and was successful in obtaining the first internet gaming legislation passed in the United States. The Atlantic Club was the sole New Jersey casino proponent of the legislation.
Prior to serving in various gaming positions, Mr. Matejevich was a Vice President of High Yield Research for Merrill Lynch, where he managed the corporate bond research effort for the gaming and leisure sectors and marketed high yield and other debt transactions totaling $4.8 billion. Mr. Matejevich received a Bachelor of Science in Economics from The Wharton School and a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations from The College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania.
Our Board of Directors
Morris Bailey — Chairman
Over the past 10 years, Mr. Bailey has been a leader in turning around Atlantic City, as well as being among the first gaming executives to embrace online gaming and sports betting in the United States. In his efforts, Mr. Bailey partnered with two of the largest digital gaming companies in the world, PokerStars, part of the Stars Group, and DraftKings (Nasdaq: DKNG). In 2010, Mr. Bailey bought Resorts Atlantic City (“Resorts”) and initiated a comprehensive renovation which allowed for the property to be rebranded and repositioned. In 2012, Mr. Bailey signed an agreement with Mohegan Sun to manage the day-to-day operations of the casino. In addition to Mohegan Sun’s operational expertise and ability to reduce costs via economies of scale, Resorts gained access to their robust customer database. Soon thereafter, Mr. Bailey and his team focused on bringing online gaming to the property. In 2015, Resorts established a platform to engage in online gaming by partnering with PokerStars, now part of the $24 billion Flutter Entertainment, PLC (LSE: FLTR), to operate an online poker room in Atlantic City. In 2018, Resorts announced deals with DraftKings and SBTech to open a sportsbook on-property and online. For 2020 year-to-date, Resorts has performed in the top quartile in internet gross gaming revenue in New Jersey. Mr. Bailey’s efforts in New Jersey helped set the framework for expansion of online sports and gaming throughout the United States.
In addition to his gaming interests, Mr. Bailey has over 50 years of experience in all facets of real estate development, asset M&A, capital markets and operations and is the founder, Chief Executive Officer and Principal of JEMB Realty, a leading real estate development, investment and management organization. Mr. Bailey has notable investment experience within the energy, finance and telecommunications sectors through investments in the Astoria Energy Plant, Basis Investment Group and Xentris Wireless.
Tony Rodio — Director Nominee
Mr. Rodio has nearly four decades of experience in the gaming industry. Most recently, Mr. Rodio served as the Chief Executive Officer and director of Caesars Entertainment Corporation (“Caesars”) (Nasdaq: CZR), one of the world’s most diversified casino-entertainment providers and the most geographically diverse U.S. casino-entertainment company, from April 2019 until its acquisition by Eldorado Resorts, Inc. in July 2020. Mr. Rodio led Caesars through its $17.3 billion merger with Eldorado Resorts, one of the largest transactions in the gaming industry to date. Additionally, Mr. Rodio was instrumental to Caesars’ expansion into the digital gaming industry and oversaw the implementation of new digital segments such as its Scientific Games powered retail sportsbook solution that now operates in various states throughout the U.S. From October 2018 to May 2019, Mr. Rodio served as Chief Executive Officer of Affinity Gaming. Prior to Affinity Gaming, he served as President, Chief Executive Officer and a director of Tropicana Entertainment, Inc. (“Tropicana”) for over seven years, where he was responsible for the operation of eight casino properties in seven different jurisdictions. During his time at Tropicana, Mr. Rodio oversaw a period of unprecedented growth at the company, improving overall financial results with net revenue that increased more than 50% driven by both operational improvements and expansion across regional markets. Mr. Rodio led major capital projects, including the complete renovation of Tropicana Atlantic City and Tropicana’s move to land-based operations in Evansville, Indiana. Each of these initiatives, among others, generated substantial value for Tropicana. Ultimately, Mr. Rodio’s efforts at Tropicana led to its sale to Eldorado Resorts in 2018 for $1.85 billion. Prior to Tropicana, Mr. Rodio held a succession of executive positions in Atlantic City for casino brands, including Trump Marina Hotel Casino, Harrah’s Entertainment (predecessor to Caesars), the Atlantic City Hilton Casino Resort and Penn National Gaming. He has also served as a director of several professional and charitable organizations, including Atlantic City Alliance, United Way of Atlantic County, the Casino Associations of New Jersey and Indiana, AtlantiCare Charitable Foundation and the Lloyd D. Levenson Institute of Gaming Hospitality & Tourism. Mr. Rodio brings extensive knowledge of and experience in the gaming industry, operational expertise, and a demonstrated ability to effectively design and implement company strategy. Mr. Rodio received a Bachelor of Science from Rider University and a Master of Business Administration from Monmouth University.
Marlon Goldstein — Director Nominee
Mr. Goldstein is a licensed attorney with nearly 20 years of experience in the gaming space. He joined The Stars Group (Nasdaq: TSG)(TSX: TSGI) in January 2014 as its Executive Vice-President, Chief Legal Officer and Secretary until his retirement from the company in July 2020 following the merger of TSG with Flutter Entertainment, PLC (LSE: FLTR). Mr. Goldstein also previously served as the Executive Vice-President, Corporate Development and General Counsel of TSG. Mr. Goldstein was also the senior TSG executive based in the United States and was one of the primary architects of TSG’s strategic vision for its U.S.-facing business. During his tenure, TSG grew from an approximately $500 million market-cap company to an approximately $7 billion market-cap company through a combination of organic growth and strategic mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Goldstein participated in numerous M&A transactions and capital markets offerings at TSG, including several transformational transactions in the digital gaming industry. Notable transactions in which Mr. Goldstein was involved include:
• TSG/Flutter Merger: In 2019, TSG merged with Flutter for a $12.2 billion transaction value, the largest transaction in the digital gaming industry to date.
• TSG/Fox Bet Partnership: In 2019, TSG entered into a partnership with FOX Sports to create FOX Bet in the U.S., a leading U.S. online gaming business. Wall Street Research estimates an approximate $1.1 billion valuation for Fox Bet post-partnership with The Stars Group.
• TSG/Sky Betting & Gaming: In 2018, TSG acquired Sky Betting & Gaming, the largest mobile gambling operator in the United Kingdom at the time, for $4.7 billion.
• TSG/CrownBet and William Hill: In 2018, TSG simultaneously acquired CrownBet and William Hill, two Australian operators, for a total of $621 million in a multi-part transaction.
• TSG/PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker: In 2014, TSG acquired The Rational Group, which operated PokerStars and Full Tilt and was the world’s largest poker business, for $4.9 billion.
Through his ability to legally structure large and complex transactions, Mr. Goldstein was integral to TSG’s vision of becoming a full-service online gaming company. Additionally, he assisted in structuring TSG’s capital markets activity, which generated liquidity for acquisitions and strengthened its balance sheet.
Prior to joining TSG, Mr. Goldstein was a principal shareholder in the corporate and securities practice at the international law firm of Greenberg Traurig P.A., where he practiced for almost 13 years. Mr. Goldstein’s practice focused on corporate and securities matters, including mergers and acquisitions, securities offerings, and financing transactions. Additionally, Mr. Goldstein was the founder and co-chair of the firm’s Gaming Practice, a multi-disciplinary team of attorneys representing owners, operators and developers of gaming facilities, manufacturers and suppliers of gaming devices, investment banks and lenders in financing transactions, and Indian tribes in the development and financing of gaming facilities.
Mr. Goldstein brings experience and insight that we believe will be valuable to a potential initial business combination target business. Mr. Goldstein received a Bachelor of Business Administration with a concentration in accounting from Emory University and a Juris Doctorate with highest honors from the University of Florida, College of Law.
Sean Ryan — Director Nominee
Mr. Ryan is a digital media and technology operator with extensive global experience in online payments, e-commerce, marketplaces, mobile ad networks, digital games, enterprise collaboration platforms, blockchain, real money gaming and online music. Since 2014, Mr. Ryan has been serving as Vice President of Business Platform Partnerships at Facebook, Inc. (“Facebook”) (Nasdaq: FB), where he leads a more than 500 person global organization that manages the Payments, Commerce, Novi/Blockhain, Workplace and Audience Network businesses. Prior to his current role, Mr. Ryan was hired in 2011 as the Director of Games Partnerships to lead and grow the global Games business at Facebook. While the Director of Games Partnerships, Mr. Ryan focused on re-shaping Facebook’s games and monetization strategies to derive more value for Facebook, its users and its partners, including the addition of a Real Money Gaming offering in regulated markets. Mr. Ryan’s team helped accelerate a major trend in engagement through cross-platform games and therefore the opportunity to increase users through establishing games on multiple platforms. Prior to joining Facebook, Mr. Ryan created the new social and mobile games division at News Corp, an American multinational mass media corporation controlled by Rupert Murdoch. While at News Corp, Mr. Ryan led the acquisition of Making Fun, a San Francisco social-game start-up, that created News Corp’s games publishing division.
Before joining News Corp., Mr. Ryan founded multiple digital businesses such as Twofish, Meez, Open Wager and SingShot Media. Mr. Ryan co-founded Twofish in 2009, a virtual goods and services platform that provided developers with data analytics and insights for individual application’s digital economies. Twofish was later sold to online payments provider Live Gamer, where Mr. Ryan served on the board of directors. From 2005 to 2008, Mr. Ryan founded and led Meez.com, a social entertainment service combining avatars, web games and virtual worlds. The white label social casino gaming company Open Wager was spun out of Meez and was later sold to VGW Holdings, Mr. Ryan also co-founded SingShot Media, an online karaoke community, which was sold to Electronic Arts (Nasdaq: EA) and merged into its Sims division.
We believe Mr. Ryan’s experience will be valuable to a potential initial business combination target and would provide an expanded perspective on the digital gaming landscape. Mr. Ryan received a Bachelor of Arts from Columbia University and a Master of Business Administration from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Tom Roche — Director Nominee
Mr. Roche has more than 40 years of experience in the gaming industry as a regulator, advisor and independent auditor. Mr. Roche joined Ernst & Young (“EY”) as a partner in 2003 and opened its Las Vegas office. He was subsequently appointed as the Office Managing Partner and Global Gaming Industry Market Leader. In 2016, Mr. Roche relocated to the EY Hong Kong office to supervise the expansion of the EY Global Gaming Industry practice in the Asia Pacific region. Mr. Roche has been integral to numerous transactions that have shaped the current gaming landscape, including:
• Wynn Resorts (Nasdaq: WYNN) initial public offering: Mr. Roche was the lead partner on Wynn Resort’s initial public offering, which raised $450 million in 2002.
• Harrah’s Entertainment/Apollo Management Group & Texas Pacific Group: Mr. Roche headed the regulatory advisory services on the buyout of Harrah’s Entertainment, the world’s largest casino company at the time, for $17.1 billion.
• Dubai World/MGM Resorts: Mr. Roche headed the regulatory and due diligence advisory services to Dubai World in its approximately $5.1 billion investment in MGM. Dubai World bought 28.4 million MGM shares, or 9.5 percent of the casino operator, for $2.4 billion. It then invested $2.7 billion to acquire a 50% stake in MGM’s CityCenter Project, a $7.4 billion 76-acre Las Vegas development of hotels, condos and retail outlets.
• MGM Growth Properties (NYSE: MGP) initial public offering: Mr. Roche provided tax and structural transaction services to MGM Resorts in the creation of MGM Growth Properties, a publicly traded REIT engaged in the acquisition, ownership and leasing of large-scale destination entertainment and leisure resorts. MGM Growth Properties raised $1.05 billion in its 2016 initial public offering.
Mr. Roche also directed EY advisory services to boards and management teams for profit improvement and technology related initiatives. In addition, Mr. Roche provided advisory support to the American Gaming Association on several research projects, including those specifically related to sports betting, the revocation of The Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act of 1992 (PASPA) and anti-money laundering best practices in the gaming industry. Equally, he has assisted government agencies in numerous international locations with enhancing their regulatory approach to governing the industry especially in the online gambling sector.
Prior to joining Ernst & Young, Mr. Roche served as Deloitte’s National Gaming Industry Leader and as the co-head of Andersen’s Gaming Industry Practice in Las Vegas. In 1989, Mr. Roche was appointed by then Governor of the State of Nevada, Robert Miller, to serve as one of three members of the Nevada State Gaming Control Board for a four-year term, where he was directly responsible for the Audit and New Games Lab Divisions. As a board member, he spent a substantial amount of time assisting global jurisdiction regulators enact gaming legislation in the design of their regulatory structure. During his career, Roche has been involved in numerous public and private offerings of equity and debt securities. His background includes providing casino regulatory consulting services to casino licensees and to federal and state agencies including the National Indian Gaming Commission and the Nevada State Gaming Control Board, and industry associations such as the Nevada Resort Association and the American Gaming Association.
We believe Mr. Roche’s highly regarded reputation as a gaming auditor and advisor in the gaming industry will be valuable for us and a potential business combination target. Mr. Roche is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and is licensed by the Nevada State Board of Accountancy and Mississippi State Board of Public Accountancy. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from the University of Southern California.
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[Review] Chanel Gabrielle Backpack, Chanel Navy Square Mini GHW, Chanel Pearl Drop Earrings and Burberry Scarf from TS Apple.

This is my first review so please be gentle with me. I’ve been lurking since the summer but it’s time for me to pay it forward. I feel super nervous given the greatness that has gone before me, so please know that this is a newbie, non-expert review - apologies if I don't go into as much detail as you might like or be used to. There are a few items to go through so grab a cup of tea and settle down for a long read. Hopefully you’ll find the photos and my purchasing experience useful because I’m certainly not bringing a lot of bag knowledge.
Let me start off this review by saying that I am not fussy when it comes to QCing, which is made worse by the fact that I don’t know a great deal about many of the bags I’m purchasing. As long as they are made of leather, logos not super wonky and vaguely passable, I’m OK with them. I suspect some of you may be shuddering at the stuff I have GLd. For the most part my rep bags only come out at night (or at least they will once that’s a possibility again!) and truly, I don’t think anyone is looking that closely. I live in a neighbourhood in London with wagoons a plenty and I think the presumption is that all bags are the real deal!
***
**Agent/Seller Service and Communication - 8.5/10**
This was my second time purchasing with Apple. I know our TS often have a team working with them but it really felt like a different person when ordering this time around. The lag between messages was much slower e.g. me having to follow up on my tracking number which I ended up slightly nervously waiting a week for. Last time around she seemed more responsive and organised but maybe being a newbie to this, I was just lucky the first time around and my second experience is a more realistic interaction with a TS. I’m deducting a point because I specifically asked for DHL and then Apple used EMS which tends to be slower but worse, I ended up having to pay £19 customs and clearing that through Parcelforce (I’m in the UK) added an extra 3 days to the delivery time.
I was so happy with my first purchase with Apple but this one less so. I’m deducting a -.5 because when I mentioned some of the issues with the pieces I received, she didn’t really make an effort to rectify any of it, aside from apologising. I wasn’t going to push it any further because I don’t see the point of being unpleasant about it. Apple’s prices really are very good and I’ve been really happy with most of the things I received. These transactions are always a gamble so you have to take the rough with the smooth, I guess!
***
Black Chanel Gabrielle Backpack
[MY PHOTOS], [PSP], [Factory] (it wasn’t on her Yupoo though - I just sent Apple a photo of what I wanted), [Auth] - couldn’t find it anywhere for sale in black so have gone with what it on the Chanel website!
Quality - 5/10**
Let’s start with the bad news. I was so looking forward to this bag based on this helpful review by Replady u/zha_1269. I’d ordered 2 x 2.55 minis from Apple during the summer that I was happy with (and one day when I am feeling brave might do a review on them) and I was really hopeful that this order would be the same.
As soon as I opened the dust bag I felt disappointed. The smell wasn’t great (i.e. it didn’t smell like leather) but the feel was the instant giveaway. It felt crepey...like really thin PU. Other than that the overall shape was fine as was the hardware. The stamping inside the bag was a bit meh, but as I’ve mentioned before, I don’t care about that stuff and had noticed it during the QC process and it didn’t bother me, as I was more bothered about the external stuff. The bag doesn’t have a serial number on the inside. Again, this doesn’t bother me one bit as nobody is looking inside. Anyway, disappointed with this one, I put it back in the dustbag and shoved it in my cupboard and buried my head in the sand. Repeated the same process the next day. And the day after. And the next. I just couldn’t prove that it was PU so didn’t feel like I could really complain about it. On one of these days I noticed that there was a small scratch on the side of the bag (which having just looked now was actually visible on the PSP so it’s a lesson to me to QC more diligently) and I could see inside the fabric that it was indeed PU. I dropped Apple a quick note letting her know but did not receive a particularly helpful response but she did message me “I’m really sorry. The factory told me every batch of leather will be different” so I did feel like I was able to express my disappointment without either of us becoming snippy.
Accuracy - Rating 5/10
I am no expert on this bag so you guys might have more to add on this.
Let’s ignore the fact that my bag is not leather (but will deduct 3 points trying to adhere to review guidelines) and look at the other details….
Satisfaction 4/10
I really was flat out disappointed with this bag, given my previous purchase with Apple (I've actually put a photo of my previous 2.55 mini against the Gabi backpack as a comparison of the leathers at the end of my photos for reference) and the excellent review for the same bag I mentioned previously. I don’t think I would feel confident wearing this out during the day as the thinness of the PU just makes it fall weirdly - you can already see the long horizontal crease that has formed at the front of the bag. I think this one is a vampire bag and one I suspect will end up in the closet of my teenage daughter who loves all things Chanel, which leads me to my next item….

Navy Chanel mini square 17cm.
[My photos] [Factory] [PSP] [Auth] - can’t find it in navy so have linked to the black.
Quality - 10/10
This bag feels and looks delightful and I really appreciate the construction of it. Out of all the Apple bags I’ve bought, this inside of this one is the best.
I opted for the lambskin, and even if, on the off chance it’s not (as per my review above), I don’t care because it looks, feels and smells great.
Accuracy - 9/10
As previously stated, I am no Chanel expert so there’s a very good chance I’ve overlooked some quite important things.
Stitch count matches the auth.
Colour: I have only seen this online but I am wondering it the authentic is perhaps a bit darkedeeper whereas this is quite a 'blue' navy blue. Don't feel like I can make a deduction on this without be sure about it!
Interior - the stamping is gold 'Made in Italy' and is neat. The bottom of the bag is not loose or saggy. The stamping on the reverse of the lock is clear and well engraved. Th serial number is located neatly at the bottom corner of the bag. The interior is navy blue - I've found red interiors on similar vintage bags and navy blue on newer ones so I just accept this as being true to the authentic unless you all tell me otherwise.
Quilting/puffiness looks as per the auth and the quilting appears well aligned.
Perhaps the hardware is a touch more yellow than the auth but is otherwise sturdy (the turnlock is especially satisfying!) and well aligned (-.5)
The back pocket (the photo of which I only just noticed was missing from the PSPs revealing the laxity of my QC) is not great compared to the auth and I suspect is quite calloutable, if you’re the type to be very bothered about it (-.5)
Satisfaction - 10/10
This was actually purchased as a Christmas gift for my Chanel obsessed teenage daughter and it is currently wrapped up and sitting under the tree. I suspect I will be borrowing this from her quite a bit as for 600 Yuan, this is a lovely bag, Chanel logo or not. My daughter will be overjoyed with this bag as she’s previously told me that she’d like to save for an auth navy Chanel bag one day However, she also knows about the rep world and this might be the closest she gets to the real thing for a while! I hope I can convince her to spend her money with a TS rather than at the CC boutique. And if she doesn’t like her gift, I certainly do.

Chanel Pearl Drop Earrings.
[My photos] [Factory] [PSP] [Auth]
Quality - 8/10
These were packaged in 2 separate plastic bags within a branded Chanel box. The branded box is not particularly high quality but these are a stocking stuffer for the aforementioned teenager in our house and not my style at all. I’m not deducting points for the box, as that’s not what I was buying but I just wanted to mention it in case the packaging plays an important part in your purchasing decision.
The weight of the earrings feels decent but the biggest issue is the posts. Immediately after taking them out of their bags and putting them into the foam insert inside the box, one of the posts completely bent (hopefully you can see it in my photos). Being in my late 40s with pierced ears since my teens, it’s not like putting the backs on earrings is a mystery to me. Anyway, I’m deducting 2 points for that as the post is quite bent even after I’ve straightened it and I just hope they withstand at least a couple of wears from my daughter. (-2)
Accuracy - 9.5/10
Size appears to match that of the auth.
Perhaps the hardware is a touch too white - the auth gold has a touch more yellow to it. (-.5)
Satisfaction - 8/10
These are a great little stocking filler for our resident Chaneloholic. My only concern is the bendy post on them won’t last very long. If they didn’t have that issue, I would have given them a 10/10.

Burberry lightweight scarf.
[My photos] [Factory] [PSP] [Auth]
Quality - 8/10
This is made from a lightweight viscose. It’s labelled as cashmere but for the price I paid, I knew that it wouldn’t be cashmere and it doesn’t behave like cashmere either - wrinkles very easily and feels a bit too slippery.
Accuracy - 7/10
From what I can see on the Burberry website, this scarf doesn’t exist..there is a lightweight cashmere scarf but it has fringing all the way around. There is a lightweight wool/silk mix scarf that seems to be what this scarf is and I’ve linked to the auth above.
So, for argument’s sake, I’m comparing to that. Obviously the fabric label doesn’t match up, but the colour certainly does.
The auth, from what I can see on the website, doesn’t have any of the embroidered logos, but again, without having seen the auth in the flesh, I don’t feel like I can comment on this with great conviction.
Satisfaction - 9/10
Although this is perhaps a fantasy piece, I don’t really care. It’s a nice, lightweight scarf for spring/autumn and it drapes really nicely. I suspect it will snag really easily as it’s quite fine, but hopefully I will remember to be careful with it.
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So, as you can see it was a bit of a hit and miss order. I would buy from Apple again but I would probably stick to the smaller bags, as I’ve been happy with those. In the meantime, I’ve just placed an order from TS Anna for a Loewe bum bag so I am really hoping for some joy when I open my next rep parcel.
Happy holidays everyone!
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How r/PoliticalCompassMemes has become Reddit's premier brigade, harassment and hate subreddit. (This is why you DO NOT hang out with Nazis!)

Generally we don't call out the large amounts of brigading, abuse and harassment that this subreddit gets subjected to because honestly it is an everyday occurrence for us. Occasionally some subs overflow to an extent in other subs, it is generally just a thing that occasionally happens on Reddit. And hate groups are almost constantly raiding us to attempt to troll and abuse us, however PoliticalCompassMemes has truly taken harassment and brigading to a new extreme.
 

WHY?

1. [MEME] PCM claims that they value 'diversity of opinions', but this is an established alt-right dog-whistle which actually means that they value hatred over actual diversity. And the truth is PCM is a place where you have to be nice to Nazis but where you are actually encouraged to attack marginalized groups. And you're certainly not welcome if you think that inciting harassment, violence and discrimination against non-white people, LBGTQ+ and women is bad.
Even then their claim that they value other peoples opinions is an absolute lie, because when AgainstHateSubreddits expresses benign opinions like how we don't think that marginalized and vulnerable groups should face constant harassment on Reddit, their users begin frothing at the mouth with outrage.
This outrage is deliberately stoaked by PCM's mods who have with a single minded determination created a toxic culture of hatred and harassment in their sub. In fact PCM users have become notorious for obsessively abusing and harassing anyone who might dare to slightly disagree with them. Brigaders from PCM often take particular pleasure dehumanizing black and trans people, e.g sending us messages like "you'll never be real women".
 
2. All it takes is a quick peak behind the facade to see that image that PCM attempts to present of a wholesome and welcoming sub is all smoke and mirrors. Pretending be frenly is just part of their strategy for normalizing hatred, discrimination and harassment. Take for example their 3rd highest voted post of all time: "Never Ask An Authright why their account is 2 weeks old". 60K upvotes for a post that is a tribute to their users who go around Reddit seeking out vulnerable users for targeted harassment, these are serial harassers who end up inevitably getting their an endless stream of accounts suspended.
PCM: [+327] "Nothing is easier to replace than a reddit account. Getting banned is all part of the fun."
Not only does PCM celebrate users who go around harassing and abusing others, the fact that they give them a megaphone to spew their hateful rhetoric is in fact a source of pride to them. [HERE] another post with 6k upvotes celebrating a PCM user who goes around spamming the N word to harass other communities.
 
3. PCM also believes in any and all ludicrous conspiracy theories created by other toxic hate groups that certain "left wing" subs-without-nazis get away with murder brigading, and they constantly demand that Reddit take action against against these heinous breaches of the Terms of Service. On it's own this is immensely hypocritical of these FREEZE PEACH Warriors who often also argue that Reddit doesn't have the right to create and enforce their own TOS. So PCM's constant harassment brigades aren't just an example of their gross hypocrisy and extreme dishonesty, but it is also an example of how hate groups project. Hate groups will literally accuse others of the very things that they are guilty of!
 
If you ever want to understand how dishonest the people are who make these conspiracy theories about us are, consider this comment by moderator of another one of Reddit's premier brigade, harassment and hate subreddits WatchRedditDie:
WRD Mod: "[Claiming to be brigaded] is a common lie that AHS uses. The mods there have a particular hate boner for PCM, so they claim every other person who disagrees with them about anything is brigading from that sub.'
This is some real selfawarewolves material. Because WRD falsely accuses AHS of brigading all the time to smear us, but in the face of overwhelming evidence claims that we're lying about PCM brigading us?! Users of WRD are as hateful as they are delusional. This mod demonstrates that it is a fact that like PCM WRD is full of Reddit's most manipulative, dishonest, toxic and abusive redditors.
 
 

TROLLING, HARASSMENT & ABUSE

DeclineIntoCensorship: "If 4chan taught me something is that with enough harassment, you can achieve anything in the internet. Just takes a coordinated effort."
It's a fact that marginalized and vulnerable groups are the disproportion target of manifestly unjust levels of harassment and abuse online.
ADL: The Trolls are Organized and Everyone’s a Target: The Effects of Online Hate and Harassment
Being a member of a marginalized community makes an individual particularly vulnerable to hate and harassment online. People who spoke out against sexist, racist and anti-Semitic injustice also attracted vicious attacks, typically in response to their condemnation of hate and bias...
I think that it's fair to say at AHS we get far more users that come to this sub to troll, harass and/or abuse us then we get users looking to participate in good faith. We are a favorite target of Reddit's most toxic hate groups, and in fact a community's obsession with us is an incredibly accurate gauge as to how hateful a community actually is.
Here is 40 recent examples of the trolling and abuse that we received from PCM users in the space of two days. This is only a small selection and it is only from two days. This harassment has been going of for almost six months now.
  1. PCM: "kill yourself loser, ill give you a tutorial if you want. completely painless and works 100% of the time"
  2. PCM: "Are you really r-----d"
  3. PCM: E: "Y'all r fucking r------d"
  4. PCM: "So I think you're all idiots"
  5. PCM: "N---r"
  6. PCM: "...nothing better than hating jews tbh"
  7. PCM: "hating the jews is based"
  8. PCM: ...these guys can't even understand the difference between gender and sex... "There is no difference"
  9. PCM: "What do you mean by "women" I think OP was reffering to biological women instead of using it to describe and adult that identifies as a female."
  10. PCM: "learn to take a joke you damn crybaby"
  11. PCM: "God you guys are pathetic."
  12. PCM: "Lmao go fuck yourself"
  13. PCM: ...Like what do they gain by invalidating someone’s identity and calling it an illness?... "Perhaps protecting their children from this harmful ideology?"
  14. PCM: PoliticalCompassMemes is pretty much just a cesspool of transphobic, racist, and bigoted jokes that pretends to be in favor of all ideas. "Pretty fun if you ask me"
  15. PCM: "N---rs tongue my anus."
  16. PCM: "alt-right" It's called PoliticalCompassMemes you dumb fuck."
  17. PCM: "Black culture is extremely toxic towards young black men, they don’t have any role models other than rappers, who rap about slinging drugs, hoes, and getting money ."
  18. PCM: "Why are you shitheads so pretentious"
  19. PCM: "why we care about t-----s now? they are men pretending to be women for oprresion points. I dont' like it. All the oppresion points I have accumulated are going to waste now that they raised the price of inflation"
  20. PCM: "transphobia don't real. man is man, women is women. chromosomes bitches"
  21. PCM: ...Trans women are women... "Why do you delude yourself so?"
  22. PCM: reurope: denies Greece is violating human rights of migrants... "Greece is based"
  23. PCM: "Fuk dem jews"
  24. PCM: "Fuk dem fags"
  25. PCM: "Did you really spent your own free time on making this shit?"
  26. PCM: "Based greeks, fuck migrants and fuck turks, Inshallah they'll retake cyprus"
  27. PCM: "Yes, I browse this sub to find the most based subreddits to join, how could you tell?"
  28. PCM: "SocialJusticeInAction insisting George Floyd wasn't murdered, and that BLM is just marxism "because it is"
  29. PCM: On whether an admitted Neo-Nazi is actually a Neo-Nazi... "guess what, it’s called black humor and he isn’t a member of the NSDAP btw"
  30. PCM: "I think the jews are horrible liars and manipulators and need to be eradicated once and for all."... "Based"
  31. PCM: "Kill yourself n---r"
  32. PCM: "you dumb f@ck"
  33. PCM: "fuck you"
  34. PCM: "please tell me you arnt this r------d"
  35. PCM: "You are a subreddit of rodents"
  36. PCM: "Shut up f---t"
  37. PCM: "...you can be a bunch of t--ds if you like..."
  38. PCM: "You guys are like Karen's little devil child terrorizing all the other kids...Y'all are actually insufferable" <-- LOL
  39. PCM: "LMAO f----t"
  40. PCM: "you’re kind of a c--t, aren’t you"
 
Then there was the time that PCM joined in with a bunch of other naked hate subs during the DarkHumorAndMemes (RIP) raids on LGBTQ+ subs and targeted a user of nonbinary for personalized harassment. This was absolutely shameful.
A. DarkHumorandMemes (RIP) raided nonbinary and other LGBTQ+ communities to bully and harass them.
B. soyboys (RIP) decided to harass one of the users that called them out.
C. And then PCM decided to join in.
 
 

DOWNVOTE BRIGADES

PCM hysterically rants and raves about how they are the 'victim' of 'brigading', but the truth is that in fact it is PCM who engages in some of the most egregious examples of vote manipulation on Reddit. Not only does PCM engage in vote manipulate to attempt to bury even the mildest criticism of their sub/cult, but their users also raid in such vast numbers that they often out number the users on this sub in excess of 30:1. It has become an absolute rarity for users on AHS to have a conversation without dozens of screaming idiots attempting to dog pile them. So much valuing other people's opinions!
For example:
[+0] [39%] [69/73] /PoliticalCompassMemes trans suicide "joke": Yes of course I support the decision of trans people/only of 40% of them though | 2,806 points (95% upvoted)
 
Completely Buried
Here are 50 examples where a post on AHS was completely buried and overwhelmed by many times more PCM user than AHS users. Most of these posts never got a score above zero, so they never received any exposure on anywhere other than againsthatesubreddits/new.
  1. [+0] [35%] [140/226] Our argument for why PCM is a hate sub - in a format we know PCM users can digest.
  2. [+0] [43%] [53/80] Literal anti-trans hatespeech all over this post on politicalcompassmemes. Guess we found where all the GRU refugees went.
  3. [+0] [48%] [6/11] Open Neo-Nazi on PoliticalCompassMemes: [+4577] "The sexual birth of a white nationalist is a strange happening, but i’ve never witnessed this sort of raw power before, actually fapping to the holocaust, what a champion."
  4. [+0] [49%] [13/18] PoliticalCompassMemes: "I have no idea why anyone especially white people would want to be an officer. Literally you are going to be dealing with black people on a daily basis and at any moment you could be made into having to deal with a George Floyd then being the most hated man in America"
  5. [+3] [51%] [9/11] PoliticalCompassMemes: "You know what? Why don't we counterattack AgainstHateSubreddits? I know brigading is against the rules here, but hey..."
  6. [+0] [35%] [42/59] PCM would like to raid us if they actually get banned.
  7. [+0] [50%] [9/10] nworder has been flashing this post by PoliticalCompassMemes, shitton of racism and n-words (hard Rs)
  8. [+0] [40%] [9/11] PCM once again denying systematic racism and blaming “personal choices” for higher rates of poverty in black communities
  9. [+0] [46%] [7/9] PoliticalCompassMemes: "the problem with many of the black crimes is the lack of impulsivity control, what you can do culturally tho is for them to not resort to violence as soon as their impulsivity tell them to act"
  10. [+0] [50%] [3/7] PoliticalCompassMemes: "…what worth is it having [black] people in our countries if with them comes unavoidable social issues? White people are the ones sacrificing their security and the future of the countries built by their ancestors, why are we hell-bent on gambling it away?"
  11. [+0] [48%] [4/9] PoliticalCompassMemes on Trans People: "I genuinely can't see any way how indulging, supporting, endorsing and educating a literal mental illness could possibly be better for even the individual in question, much less society as a whole. "
  12. [+0] [40%] [2/4] PoliticalCompassMemes: "You forget that racebaiters, especially within the black community, stop other blacks from "acting white" by doing thinks like focusing on education, degrading marriage, and actively propping up these vulgar and subsidized black women as strong and empowered."
  13. [+0] [36%] [4/5] POLITICALinCELMEMES: "[Women] are so lacking in a sense of justice or empathy for men that they destroy any sense of trust that should exist between the sexes."
  14. [+0] [33%] [3/8] PoliticalCompassMemes: "Meanwhile in Italy Mussolini's grandoughter is successfull politician."... "This took a sudden turn for the awesome."
  15. [+0] [40%] [2/4] PoliticalCompassMemes: "For the most part people are still very 'don’t compare pedophiles to homosexuals!' about it. But given their ideology is literally about the absolute freedom of the will, it’s not a question of if it’ll come mainstream, but when."
  16. [+0] [39%] [9/11] PCM once again denying systematic racism and blaming “personal choices” for higher rates of poverty in black communities
  17. [+0] [37%] [3/7] defiantly not nazis PoliticaIcompassmemes
  18. [+2] [50%] [12/21] 'Haha, anti-semitism is funny and you're not one of cool boys if you don't agree.''
  19. [+0] [49%] [10/13] Pathetic user in /PoliticalCompassMemes gets highly upvoted for saying tr*** are pedophiles {also, downvote to 0 to totally prove PCM doesn't brigade}
  20. [+0] [47%] [10/14] PoliticalCompassMemes doing more "Ironic" Nazi shit including Jews-control-the-media stuff
  21. [+0] [49%] [30/54] Holocaust denial on PCM
  22. [+0] [39%] [69/73] /PoliticalCompassMemes trans suicide "joke": Yes of course I support the decision of trans people/only of 40% of them though | 2,806 points (95% upvoted)
  23. [+0] [39%] [36/42] PCM posts Stonetoss Comic edited to be queerphobic instead of racist (1k upvotes)
  24. [+0] [42%] [24/27] /PoliticalCompassMemes "subtly" adding Nazi propaganda to their "jokes"
  25. [+0] [41%] [41/55] PoliticalCompassMemes wonders why we watch them. "AHS doesn't like us because we allow right winged opinions". Guess racism is just a right winged opinion…
  26. [+0] [31%] [29/35] Political Compass Memes goes full unironic with white genocide
  27. [+0] [46%] [3/7] PoliticalCompassMemes distorting the narrative around George Floyd's death
  28. [+0] [49%] [17/27] PCM: "I honestly have never wanted to genocide Libleft and authleft as much as these past 3 months"
  29. [+0] [49%] [21/39] User fbicrimestats on /PoliticalCompassMemes: "Being racist is a valid political opinion"
  30. [+0] [44%] [24/35] /PoliticalCompassMemes is now adopting TERF talking points
  31. [+0] [39%] [14/17] politicalcompassmemes "It seems big cow inflated the numbers to get into a higher hierarchical position" Holocaust denial as usual
  32. [+0] [45%] [8/13] Racism from /PoliticalCompassMemes yet again
  33. [+0] [47%] [13/20] Ban Evasion sub for /politicalcompassmemes
  34. [+0] [43%] [20/55] /PoliticalCompassMemes casually adds antisemitism to their racist 13/50 thread: "despite being 2% of the population, (((they))) control 90% of the media". Comments at 198 and 226 points, thread at 14.6k.
  35. [+0] [43%] [15/46] PoliticalCompassMemes user flaired as an "Auth-Center" (Nazi) is posting a meme to spread the hoax that this subreddit is posting CP. Users in the comments support him, mostly flaired with AuthRight. Those who question the validity of the claims are downvoted.
  36. [+0] [43%] [14/21] Comment section on PoliticalCompassMemes post devolves into racism, anti-Semitism, and calls for AHS users to kill themselves
  37. [+0] [49%] [16/29] PoliticalCompassMemes is already accepting neo nazi propoganda
  38. [+0] [45%] [25/30] /PoliticalCompassMemes back at it with making fun of LGBT+ people
  39. [+0] [47%] [20/33] So I actually love politicalcompassmemes, but Jesus the comments are an an antisemitic shit-show
  40. [+0] [50%] [15/50] Mask-off racism from PoliticalCompassMemes
  41. [+0] [49%] [11/16] Yet another transphobic thread on PCM
  42. [+0] [48%] [14/23] PCM user claims fascism is good: "in a true unregulated free market place of ideas the fascists always win"
  43. [+0] [43%] [25/95] DarkHumorAndMemes and PoliticalCompassMemes team up to engage in blatant vote manipulation on AgainstHateSubreddits yet again!
  44. [+0] [48%] [9/22] /PCM upvotes a literal Mussolini calling her political opponent a f***ot as "based"
  45. [+0] [48%] [109/203] Another user on politicalcompassmemes call for yet another raid to harass the users of againsthatesubreddits with
  46. [+2] [51%] [14/21] Transphobic post from a year ago makes its way to pcm again, comments are worse than I expected
  47. [+5] [51%] [5/9] PoliticalCompassMemes: "...t-----s are fuck ugly monsters. The ironic thing is that traps, who aren’t t-------s do it better."
  48. [+7] [53%] [4/7] Blatant promotion of jewish conspiracies in politicalcompassmemes comment section. All with double digit upvotes.
  49. [+0] [52%] [0/2] PoliticalCompassMemes on refugees: "these scum you love would slit your throat for a shilling and you'd love it to the last moment."
  50. [+9] [51%] [14/26] Bunch of racists propagating eugenics and "racial science" on /PoliticalCompassMemes
 
Completely Overwhelmed
Here are 20 examples of the rare occasions when a posts manages to not get completely buried, but when PCM users still manage to appear in greater numbers than AHS users.
  1. [+16] [53%] [11/19] Ceoofracism1488 on /PoliticalCompassMemes: "'Society did this' not n---- and minorities being on average stupid as hell"
  2. [+16] [52%] [38/57] politicalcompassmemes is a hate subreddit now
  3. [+17] [53%] [15/25] PoliticalCompassMemes: "You exterminate an infestation of insects down to the very last or they will come back. Time and time again jews have acted as parasites, putting themselves in positions to directly influence and subvert the culture of the host..."
  4. [+22] [59%] [7/9] Archives of multiple upvoted (one exception, but still shows a point) comment threads for a StoneToss post on PCM
  5. [+23] [57%] [6/12] ''Transphobes are here to stay.'' Woke politicalcompassmemes accepts all views, let's forget about unironic calling for violence the last few months.
  6. [+18] [54%] [19/27] Yet again, PoliticalCompassMemes pats itself on the back for welcoming Nazis
  7. [+19] [55%] [17/19] /PoliticalCompassMemes post with a blatant transphobic caricature. Another instance of their memes making fun of LibLeft just being thinly-veiled anti-LGBT+ memes
  8. [+20] [56%] [12/24] PoliticalCompassMemes, as is tradition, brigades hard all other subs that point their hate, bigotry or stupidity
  9. [+38] [59%] [31/31] PoliticalCompassMemes glorifying nazism in the face of the Minneapolis protests
  10. [+41] [58%] [39/64] politicalcompassmemes posting GamersRiseUp content that isn’t a political compass meme.
  11. [+50] [58%] [41/57] PoliticalCompassMemes discusses the morality of homosexuality. "I don't need to explain to you why gays are immoral degenerates because everyone has already accepted that they are", concludes one user.
  12. [+56] [56%] [123/165] /PoliticalCompassMemes is too far gone now
  13. [+49] [57%] [16/26] “I’m a white nationalist” +155, /politicalcompassmemes decends further into being a nazi bar
  14. [+70] [57%] [70/89] /PoliticalCompassMemes' parallels with the early history of GamersRiseUp, how it's currently following a similar path, and, contrary to what you might expect, how I think the sub has legitimate potential to turn it around and become just as good as it was before
  15. [+236] [67%] [138/388] Yet another user from politicalcompassmemes calls for their users to raid this sub and spam child exploitation material. (Archive in comments.)
  16. [+739] [68%] [182/314] /PoliticalCompassMemes commenters explain why LGBT+ acceptance is dropping, citing "the sjws", pedophiles, and other strawmen as the cause
  17. [+743] [74%] [114/245] politicalcompassmemes +26 "Or I could blame AHS for actually being the autistic t****y narcs that they are." On a post that shatters the excuse of "we're being ironic!"
  18. [+899] [73%] [210/372] Your daily dose of transphobia from /PoliticalCompassMemes. Is this even a PCM?
  19. [+1055] [67%] [337/464] Some more fascist propaganda from PoliticalCompassMemes
  20. [+1438] [74%] [183/278] PoliticalCompassMemes discusses how they plan their infamous raids: "But if we plan it on discord, there would be no proof of us conspiring to brigade them ;)"
  21. [+1500] [79%] [95/176] PoliticalCompassMemes upvoting racial slurs as "a joke". Lots of mask off racism in the comment section too.
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UPVOTE BRIGADES

PCM isn't just content to sit back and ensure even that even their mildest critic is silenced, via downvote brigades, harassment and abuse but PCM celebrates how they will even manipulate content on AHS via upvote brigades.  
Example 1
A. During a DarkHumorAndMemes (RIP) raid on AHS this [USER] // [USER ARCHIVE] made [THIS] thread on AHS that was brigaded by DH&M to quickly reach to approximately 40 or so upvotes in approximately an hour or so before it was removed.
B. Of course a few hours later PCM made [THIS] post celebrating DH&M's harassment brigades, and almost instantly users from PCM then brigaded that thread too.
C. The result: In less than a day PCM and DH&M upvote brigaded [THIS] // [SCREENSHOT] removed post to a score of over 400.
D. PCM then spammed trolling and abusive posts and comments on AHS.
E. PCM then ensured [THIS POST] calling out their raiding was instantly buried.
 
Example 2
A. [THIS] PCM user made [THIS] troll post on AHS.
B. Then [THIS]abusive PCM user made [THIS] post on PCM.
C. Like clockwork the PCM brigaders followed, and the post on AHS received approximately 50 brigaders from PCM before it was locked and removed.
 
 
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2020 Playing Card Holiday Gift Guide

My favourite decks from the past year

Playing cards make the ideal gift, particularly the many beautiful custom decks available nowadays. Almost everyone can use a deck of cards at some point, so they have an instant and universal appeal, especially if a deck has some customized artwork and is packaged in an appealing tuck box.
In this list I want to focus on some of my favourite decks that have come out in the past year 2020. This year has been a challenging year for many of us in light of the coronavirus that has swept across the world. But in the middle of all this darkness, there have also been some bright spots, which include the brand new crop of custom decks that have appeared in the marketplace.
The suggestions I'm making are very much a matter of personal choice, and other playing card enthusiasts might make other choices. I haven't seen each and every deck that hit the market in the past year, and there are undoubtedly plenty of other worthy decks that qualify for a list like this. I've also not included any decks that have haven't yet been produced, even if they have been crowdfunded. This list strictly covers decks that you should be able to obtain from online retailers and resellers. I've also not included so-called "hype decks" that sell out almost immediately at the publisher level (e.g. Fontaines), but only those that enter retail channels and are more widely and readily available.
I've also included links to where you find them at PlayingCardDecks so that you can see images of the tuck boxes and cards for each item, and because they're the retailer I personally buy playing cards from the most. But you should be able to find these decks at most online retailers.

Popular Series

Several series of playing cards have become brands of their own, and achieved nearly cult status from collectors. This past year has seen some great additions to the line-ups from popular series that include big names like Jerry's Nuggets, Cherry Casino, and NOC.
Jerry's Nugget Aqua Playing Cards - Jerry's Nuggets are a modern icon in the world of playing cards, due to the cult status of this deck, which was praised by cardists around the world. It was originally printed in the early 1970s, and was so much in demand in recent decades that copies fetched over $500 in the secondary market. A very successful reprinting of the original blue and red decks happened in 2019, and in the past year we've seen multiple reprints in different colours. Among my favourites in this series are the bright colours like orange, yellow, and green, which have all appeared in the past year. But there's also something for those who prefer a more muted look, such as steel and black. For more in this series, see Jerry's Nugget decks.
Cherry Casino Tropicana Teal Playing Cards - The Cherry Casino decks capture a retro vibe, and are a throwback to the old fruit machines from gambling halls, with their distinctive cherry artwork. For me the real appeal of this series lies in the gorgeous card backs, which have a metallic sheen making them feel instantly different from all other decks. The face cards are all quite standard, so that makes them ideal for card games or card magic. Multiple new colours continue to appear in this series, such as Flamingo Quartz Pink, and most recently McCarran Silver. For more in this series, see Cherry Casino decks .
NOC 3000X2 Purple Playing Cards - The acronym NOC originally stood for Nothing Only Colour, and in line with this the initial decks in this series were all very minimalist. Many people like to collect and use the NOC decks, and over time the series has evolved somewhat. The most recent releases show some new splashes of creativity, and with the NOC 3000X2 deck we travel into the future, past the year 3000. Vibrant purples and pinks inhabit the landscape of the cards, for a very modern and flashy look that is particularly well suited to cardistry. This particular deck is also available in a matching pink version. For more in this series, see NOC decks.

Popular Brands

There are several big brands that you can count on for quality, and this year was no exception, with big companies like Theory11, Ellusionist, and Art of Play all continuing to contribute wonderful playing cards to the market.
James Bond 007 Playing Cards - When it comes to glamorous tuck boxes, it doesn't get much better than the luxury of playing card producer Theory11. This wonderful deck is a tribute to agent 007, James Bond. I collect most of the Theory11 decks, and this one is particularly terrific, with a supreme tuck box, and Bond-inspired paraphernalia on the court cards and on the card back. Close observers will find many Bond gadgets and more. Theory11 have put out several stylish releases in the past year, another one being the Hollywood Roosevelt deck. For more, see Theory11 decks.
Shadow Masters Legacy v2 Playing Cards - One of the companies at the forefront of the custom playing cards movement was Ellusionist and their Black Tiger deck continues to be a modern icon. While they've since been overshadowed by the many custom decks produced in the crowd-funding era over the past decade, they continue to produce some memorable decks from time to time that are worth picking up. The Shadow Masters Legacy v2 is a black deck in the classic Ellusionist style, and represents the kind of thing that made them great to begin with. A jet black background is the chief feature of this deck, and the red and white used for the artwork and pips stands out beautifully against the inky black. This deck compares favourably with any other deck from the modern era. For more, see Ellusionist decks.
Yellow Wheel Playing Cards - The brand Art of Play is the home of influential cardists Dan and Dave Buck. Their Red & Blue Wheel decks are among my all-time favourite decks, with gorgeous metallic inks as part of a split-pip design. The Yellow Wheel deck is their latest entry in the Wheel series, that retains the original card backs but now in yellow. But the highlight is the card faces, with the split pips employing a stunning metallic silver that complements the cards beautifully. This is a completely custom deck that is certain to impress anyone who sees it. Art of Play produces many new decks each year, and their Henry & Sally deck is a fun novelty release also worth checking out. For more, see Art of Play decks.

Popular Designers

They are a very select group, but there are some notable designers in the playing card industry who have developed a real name for themselves, have generated a large following of loyal fans, and continue to produce high quality custom decks on a regular basis.
Italia Radiosa Playing Cards - Italian designer Giovanni Meroni is the man behind Thirdway Industries, and his playing cards are in high demand from collectors around the world. His signature style is immediately recognizable in each of his decks, and this one is no exception. Along with its companion Italia Segreta, it's themed around the wonders and secrets of Italy. The unique court cards are the real highlight, showcasing Giovanni's usual creativity and style. The number cards are also fully custom. These are the kinds of decks that will hold their value well in years to come. If you want even more vibrant colours, check out Modern Idols, from the same creator. For more, see Giovanni Meroni decks.
Postage Paid Playing Cards - Behind the brand Kings Wild Project is Jackson Robinson, who is one of the few professional designers that actually makes a living out of designing playing cards. This deck was inspired by the idea of playing cards functioning as postcards, each with its own stamp and post paid stamp. All 50 US states are represented on different cards, and everything about this deck is fully customized. This deck was produced in only limited numbers, so it will be out of stock in most places. But if you're quick, you can still grab Jackson Robinson's General Admission deck, which applies a similar concept to tickets, with each card representing a vintage ticket stub from the early 20th century. For more, see Jackson Robinson decks.
Kodiak Playing Cards - From popular designer Jody Eklund and his Black Ink Playing Cards Company, comes this delightful deck of playing cards that is geared to the poker player and collector. The cards have a very classic look, but offer a fresh take on the designs of the court cards and pips. Jody is highly respected for his approach to graphic design, and these cards will prove an excellent choice if you like playing card games, and want to bring something stylish and attractive to the table. For more, see Jody Eklund decks.

Magician Decks

Most magicians can perform their magic with any deck, but typically they prefer to do card magic with a deck where novelty and customization are minimal, so as not to distract from their magic. These decks are well suited to performing magic, and contain bonus gaff cards or other secrets that enable them to produce miracles not possible with ordinary decks.
Card College Playing Cards - These decks are a tribute to the most outstanding modern teacher of the fundamentals of card magic, Roberto Giobbi. Mr Giobbi is the author of Card College, a series of best-selling books which are the modern gold standard for learning card magic. Available in red and blue, these decks are simple and practical for the working magician, and as a bonus each contains two double backer gaff cards. If you want more luxury, check out the stunning Luxury 3 Deck Set, which has even more stylish cards, individually numbered tuck boxes with unique origami style features, packaged in an attractive acrylic box - the ideal collectible or gift for magicians.
Remedies Royal Blue Playing Cards - The Remedies decks come from popular creators Daniel Madison and Daniel Schneider, and this is a successor to the Remedies Scarlet Red deck. Many collectors love the Black Roses brand of playing cards, and collect whatever they produce. This blue Remedies deck has a classic and minimalist look with bold blue card backs, and is very functional and practical. The inclusion of a special Angle Zero gaff makes it ideal for magicians.
DMC Elites Red v5 Playing Cards - Of all the marked decks I own, the DMC Elites is easily my first choice whenever I want a marked deck with cards that can be easily read from a distance, due to the clever and yet almost invisible marking system it uses. This deck has previously been released in several different colours, and now incorporates Tamariz's Mnemonica stack. All you need is the deck, but there is a terrific Passport book available separately, which will give you some great ideas for routines you can pull off with this great marked deck. For more, see Marked decks.

Cardistry Decks

Card flourishing has really boomed in recent years, and especially shines when cardists use a deck that has colourful and striking patterns optimized for cardistry, that enhance the visual aesthetics of cards in motion, as these decks show.
Neon Orange Cardistry Playing Cards - This deck represents Bicycle's attempt to meet a demand for a relatively low-cost deck geared towards card flourishing. The card backs have a geometric design, and the faces are all identical and completely non-standard, showcasing the latest evolution in playing cards optimized entirely for cardistry. Bright colours ensure that the cards look visually appealing in fans, spreads, and flourishing moves. Alongside this vibrant orange deck is its blue companion, the Neon Blue Aurora deck.
Autumn Circle Cardistry Playing Cards - Tally Ho is a classic brand that USPCC has been producing for a long time. The circle back design of the typical Tally Ho deck has become iconic, and is especially appreciated by those who enjoy card flourishing. Each year the folks at Bicycle produce some in-house decks for special occasions, and the Autumn Circle Back deck is a lovely result. The colours capture the warmth and glow of autumn leaves and the mood of harvest time, while the pattern on the card backs is perfect for cardistry.
ArrowDynamix Cardistry Playing Cards - Given the high volume of cardistry decks appearing all the time, it can be difficult to come up with something completely original, but this minimalist deck has accomplished exactly that. Each card features a giant vertical arrow on the card backs, and a giant horizontal arrow on the faces. With carefully choreographed sequences and moves, you can create truly unique patterns and effects that you simply can't achieve with any other cardistry deck.

Animal-themed Decks

Do you love animals, or do you have an animal lover in your life? There are a lot of wonderful custom decks that are tributes to our four legged friends, or depict some of our favourite creatures.
Woof and Whiskers Dog Playing Cards - The real appeal of this deck is the cute tuck box, which has cardboard ears that fold up, to complete the look of the friendly dog on the front of the box. I would have liked to see some more customization with the number cards, but it's still a very charming deck, with delightful custom artwork on the court cards and aces. This is one of two Zoo 52 decks, so if you like the Dog deck, you'll also want to pick up the Playful Paws Cat deck, which is equally cute.
Aviary Playing Cards - There are a lot of independent creators that produce Bicycle branded playing cards with the help of industry giant USPCC, but this big name producer also releases its own in-house decks. This is my favourite of their four newest releases that hit the market at the end of 2020, and is a very classy looking deck with artwork inspired by a traditional look, but with adjustments to give it a custom feel, and the presence of several birds carefully positioned throughout the deck. Of the four new releases from Bicycle, the Sea King deck is also proving to be very popular.
King of Tigers Playing Cards - If you're looking for a deck with bling, this is it. The card backs have a borderless tiger skin pattern, which has been printed with some of the latest technology that makes use of foil for a truly eye-catching look. The tuck box is even more glamorous. While the court cards are clearly inspired by traditional courts, the Jokers bring back the tiger theme strongly, and the tiger skin look recurs throughout the deck.

Food-themed Decks

Recent years have seen some wonderful novelty decks themed around different kinds of food. These are always a great way to whet your appetite for a card game, or to show off to family or friends, and have proved a real hit with collectors.
Squeezers V3 Playing Cards - Good luck getting your hands on decks from this extremely popular series from Organic Playing Cards, because they sell out quickly. These fruit inspired decks have delightful tuck boxes, and this grapefruit themed deck even comes in a tuck box that looks like a juice box, and is actually scented like grapefruit. The cards themselves are quite practical, but add humorous grapefruit themed elements to the court cards, and new bold colours. OPC's 2020 releases also included the watermelon-themed Carvers deck, while their current release sees the brand go in a slightly new direction with the corn-themed Shuckers.
Noodlers Chicken Playing Cards - If you like the concept behind the Organic Playing Cards series, you'll probably also enjoy this deck, which has a similarly styled tuck box to the Squeezers decks, but represents a packet of ramen noodles. The orange colour on the card backs and pips has also been inspired by the noodles theme. The artwork on the court cards has a quaint and cute style, with each character depicted in a light hearted style quite different from standard courts, and all holding a bowl of noodles. For a final laugh, the Jokers provide us with the necessary packet of "chicken seasoning" to add to our noodles.
Citrus Playing Cards - Created by Flaminko, the Deliciousness series has been somewhat overshadowed by the more successful fruit inspired cards from Organic Playing Cards. But I love the Flaminko decks, because they apply customization to all elements of the cards, including the pips. This novelty deck is well suited for card flourishing, card games, and collectors, and cleverly captures all that is juicy and wonderful about citrus fruit.

Music-themed Decks

Music is another evergreen theme, and there's a solid range of lovely decks for the music lover, whether your taste is classical or more contemporary rock-and-roll.
Composers Mozart Playing Cards - This deck is part of a series that also includes other composers like Bach. These decks are true collector pieces, and make a wonderful tribute to some of the greatest composers of all time. The tuck boxes have a very classical look, and metallic ink enhances the gorgeous card backs. Meanwhile completely custom artwork on the faces emphasizes a vintage and classical feel. They are great for music lovers and collectors, but if classical music isn't your thing, then check out the Rock and Roll deck.
Piano Player Playing Cards - If the piano is your instrument of choice, this is a deck for you. The creative tuck box is available in two styles, one with two black keys and the other with three black keys, which means you can place two decks alongside each other to create a larger keyboard. Fully custom characters inhabit the court cards, with the keyboard motif returning in the details of the artwork. Small touches like this really make this creative deck a thing of unique beauty.
Soundboards v3 Midnight Playing Cards - Remember the old walk-man cassette players? In the 1980s these revolutionary electronic devices were among the first to make your personal music collection portable. The Soundboards deck replicates the look of a classic walk-man, and the Jokers complete the look by bringing the cassette tape look into the box. This Midnight edition has a dark look, so you might also want to consider the red deck if you prefer a more traditional colour.

Fiction & Film themed Decks

Most of us love a good story, whether it's in the pages of a novel or on our screens. Here are some great custom decks that are loving tributes to some of the best from the worlds of fiction and film.
Jane Austen Playing Cards - Fans of the classic novel will appreciate the loving treatment that Jane Austen's famous novels have received in this delightful tribute from the Art of Play label. Each suit represents a different novel, with the court cards featuring the lead characters in the story. The design of the characters is inspired by period costumes and reflects the fashions from the time in which the stories are set. The classy tuck case ensures that everything is nicely packaged and well presented.
Star Wars Playing Cards - Theory11 achieved a real coup by acquiring the rights to bring the Star Wars brand to playing cards. They were the perfect company to ensure that the result was a classy deck that did justice to the world of the films. This pair of Light Side and Dark Side decks begins with a top quality and highly attractive tuck case, as we've come to expect from Theory11. The court cards all feature different characters from the movies, and the design is the perfect blend of customization and playability, making this a practical deck you can bring out for your favourite card game, or to give to the Star Wars fan in your life. A similar pair of decks was produced later in the year in White and Black.
King Arthur Playing Cards - The result of a collaboration between Riffle Shuffle and Studio Muti, this pair of red and green decks tell the story of the famous Arthurian legend. For me it's a personal and nostalgic childhood favourite, in light of the adventure and imagination it evokes. But as impressive as these decks are, they pale besides the King Arthur Gold deck, which has gold metallic ink on the faces, and gold foil on the card backs, for a truly extravagant look. Inside and out, this is a stunning tribute to a timeless classic from the world of fiction.

Space-themed Decks

So I cheated. I already have a section devoted to cardistry, so I figured I'd sneak in a second category, by including some cardistry decks that all have a space theme. These decks all feature colourful visuals that work well for flourishing, but can also be enjoyed by collectors who appreciate their vibrant colours and exuberant designs.
Solokid Constellation Playing Cards - This set of twelve decks captures the twelve different star signs. It was produced by Bocopo, a company well known for producing colourful custom decks that appeal especially to cardists and collectors. These decks are typical Bocopo offerings, with evocative colours that are unique to each different deck, to help capture a different feeling for each and every constellation. If you like vibrant colour, you'll certainly find something to enjoy here.
Stargazer New Moon Playing Cards - Several different decks have now appeared in the Stargazer series, but the recent New Moon deck is probably my favourite. The circular moon that appears on all the card backs makes it an ideal deck for card flourishing moves like spins and twirls. The face cards have some truly vibrant colours, and capture well the feel of a night sky bursting with colour and life.
Sirius B v3 Playing Cards - I fell in love with the style of the original Sirius B deck, so this third edition was always going to win me over. The court cards consist of a blur of colours that look like paints mixed together, and this style has also been applied to the pips. The colours are the real appeal here, and the signature design of the card backs also looks very nice in card flourishes.

Transformation Decks

I personally adore transformation cards, and consider them to be one of the most fascinating and memorable types of playing cards there is. The idea is that you take the pips and incorporate them into a larger picture that forms a unique work of art, for each and every card in the deck.
Cotta's Almanac #1 Reproduction Playing Cards - This historic deck was first created in 1805 by J.C. Cotta, and was the very first of its kind. Themed on the "Joan of Arc" play by Schiller, the beauty and creativity of these cards will still win over collectors today. Lovingly produced in a high quality modern edition, this recreation is the first of the entire series of Cotta transformation decks that is being reproduced by PCD.
5th Kingdom Playing Cards - This deck is possibly my favourite original release from PCD in the past year. It is an outstanding example of the creativity and originality of a semi-transformation deck, where the pips have been cleverly incorporated into the artwork. Each suit represents a different culture, turning each individual card into a work of art that can be admired and enjoyed.
Pack of Dogs V2 Playing Cards - This transformation deck is the work of John Littleboy, who has produced a number of such decks in his inimitable style, including Pack of Dogs, Kitten Club, Mermaid Queen, and Bag of Bones. The number cards are my favourites, and in this deck each of these represents a larger art piece with a dog. Each suit has a progressive image, so they don't feel totally unique from each other. It's more like a series of consecutive snapshots, and you can use flip animation to tell the story. Littleboy's Kitten Club V2 deck applies a similar concept to cats.

In-House Decks

PlayingCardDecks doesn't just sell playing cards, but Will Roya also uses his wealth of experience to team up with designers and graphic artists to produce high quality custom decks under the PCD label. Here are some great custom decks that were published in-house over the course of 2020.
Astronaut Playing Cards - This novelty deck is a delightful creation that will please anyone who has an interest in space and space travel, in light of its unique theme. The Kings are all depicted as astronauts, while the Queens and Jacks represent space travellers. The card backs have a futuristic look with neon lights, and this look carries over to the number cards, which are highly customized with unique red and blue pips.
Beekeeper Playing Cards - There are plenty of bee themed playing cards already on the market, but the artwork style gives this one a truly unique feel. Two decks were produced, one with light card backs and the other with dark card backs. This is a great novelty deck for the collector, because there's especially some delightful creativity to be found with the bee-inspired pips, and the detailed custom artwork on the court cards.
Testament Classic Playing Cards - This is a Biblical themed deck created by artist Ben Green. It's intended as an art deck, with the images on the cards depicting Biblical characters from well-known narratives. Representing a dual love for playing cards and a love for Bible-inspired art, this deck will especially appeal to the collector.

Out-of-the-Ordinary Decks

I'm a sucker for highly unusual decks with a high degree of novelty, and even though these are not ones I'd typically use for playing card games, they have very unique features that make them stand out from your average custom deck.
Starry Night Puzzle Playing Cards - Fancy a deck that doubles as a jigsaw puzzle? This clever deck takes its inspiration from Vincent Van Gogh's famous painting, The Starry Night. The artwork on the card faces is all taken from the painting, and all the cards can be pieced together to make a single giant picture, thus effectively functioning as a large puzzle. Yet each card has clear indices so it's still something you can use for card games too. Definitely unique and out of the ordinary, this set of playing cards is a perfect choice for fans of classic art and paintings.
Falcon Razors Deluxe Throwing Playing Cards - Rick Smith Jr has made multiple world records in throwing playing cards. His baseball background holds him in good stead, but anybody can learn to throw playing cards if you use the techniques Rick teaches. These throwing cards were a collaboration with legendary flourisher De'vo, and were featured in one of this year's viral videos from Dude Perfect, which featured Rick and his amazing card throwing. The cards are slightly thicker than standard Bicycle stock, to ensure extra durability and performance for card throwing.
AQUA Invisible Plastic Playing Cards - If you're looking for something completely different, this might hit the mark. This is a ground-breaking deck that is the closest thing to being invisible. All the cards are made out of completely transparent plastic, after which a high gloss transparent printing is applied to selected areas of the cards to produce the designs and pips. So each card is effectively completely transparent, and yet you can see its unique artwork and determine its value and suit. The handling is surprisingly better than you'd expect for a completely plastic deck, and it's certainly something unique.

Other Gift Ideas

Do you want to let your gift recipient make their own decision about what to get, or are you not quite sure what to buy? Here are a couple of special gift ideas that might help out, even if it is to give your family or friends a convenient way to enable you to select your own gift!
Firstly, there's a wide range of accessories available for playing cards, like card clips, card cases, and more. Alternatively, consider a gift card, which is available in amounts of $10, $25, $50, $100, and $200. There's also the popular Pip Box Club, which has been around for over two years. Subscribers get a selection of decks and goodies shipped to them each month, and offers great value with each box.
Boxing Day Sale: Right now you can take advantage of a special sale at PlayingCardDecks, and save $10 off any order over $30 by using the code box20. This coupon is valid from Boxing Day until the end of 2020.
Happy shopping, and happy holidays!
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