The font was chosen in an effort to make documents easier to read for the vision impaired.
So It’s Republican policy that the government must not, even in the smallest way, make life any easier for disabled people? And the government must not do nothing and leave in place something that already makes life easier for them, but must actively intervene to make it harder? Of course it is, but what the fuck is wrong with these people that they dedicate their entire life to getting into government so they can punch down and hurt others? How have they not even accidentally stumbled into being better than the worst they can be?
Gotta hurt. Thats the policy.
Its the culling of the herd. They feel they know best what the make up of the country should be. Its the same thing as eugenics. It makes sense if you think helping the disabled is a waste of resources.
How do you develop this point of view? How did people become convinced the h man was right? People are susceptible to propaganda. I heard the comments on popular sites about Taylor Swift being pro right after her last album was 25% astroturf. Heard from Phil Defranco on yt, there was a study.
Go look at the shit on truth social. I’ve met people that only look at the conservative part of the web, like fox news junkies of the last 25 years. They’re radicalized by astroturf, then hide in these echo chambers. Most of the discourse is directed by people with vested interest in political outcomes.
People I was friendly with were trying to say Charlie Kirk would have been a good president when he died. He was such a kind and selfless Christian, they say. I cant find anything defendable in his media output, but once you’re radicalized, its just about hitting the talking points. “Woke ideology.” “Trans mind virus.” “Communists and Socialists.” “Empathy is bad for our coutry.” Once you believe you’re surrounded by enemies, its easy to be manipulated by fear.
Fascists always go after disabled people first because it’s harder for them to fight back and fascists are cowards.
Surely if you want to kill disabled people, it’s a good idea to start by making them feel shunned and their lives extremely difficult first, no?
That way, a lot of them die off, lose their power and voice in society, and are way easier to purge when the time comes!
You can’t build a Christiofascist Oligarchy without obliterating a few societal eggs, after all!
Were the Epstein files too legible?
Most of them are published as they were written, so they aren’t affected by the government’s preferred font.
just watch them start publishing in wingdings
Ok Boomer
“Small government” but also lets waste money on dumb shit like this that doesn’t matter.
Also wouldn’t a serif font cost more in ink over the course of millions of documents printed? Those serifs might not take a lot of ink to add but they do add up.
They’ve never been for small government. This lie needs to be called out every single time.
“small government” is just a dog whistle for “lower rich people taxes”.
And deregulation so they’re unfettered by pesky things like safety standards and such.
The government AND the national debt ALWAYS grow under Republicans.
Oh they found that the font was helping someone. Can’t have that.
These people are such fucking trash…
Reminder that Donald J. Trump fucks children and there is proof of this that they are trying to distract us from in order to protect him and the rest of the kidfuckers.
STAY ON POINT.
Imagine being so much snowflake that a simple font upsets you. Words fail.
Ugh.
At least Arial exists. And Helvetica. But Times New Roman? What is this, English class in the early aughts? 12pt font, double spaced with one inch margins?
Hell, if you want wanna make America great again make it Courier; tech bros’ll think you’re coding but we know you really just want to take us back to late 1800s when typewriters and bad economic policy were in. Or maybe something appropriate for this administration, like Wingdings.
Times New Roman is disgusting
It pisses me off when creative writing contests require this font in their submissions. It’s probably the ugliest of the common fonts. Why anyone would want to read it is beyond me.
its a nice distraction of whats going in with the epstein files, and immigration.
This has got to be one of the dumbest things I’ve ever heard.
They should ban toilet paper, it’s too woke.
TP is gay as fuck. Rubbing your own ass is sin. Didnt you know? On reddit there were a couple of posts about redneck guys not wiping their own shitty ass, as it is gay to touch anus or anus be touched. The brainrot is frightening, yet fascinating with this sample group of institutionalised uneducation, xenophobia, egoism and patriachal focused propaganda.
Imagine being scared of your own butthole ffs!
Anus be touched sounds like a country music song
On the same album, just after the song titled gay to touch anus.
It’s not rich men north of richmond, but it does entertain.
Times New Roman is wayyyy too classy for Trump Administration. They should switch to Comic Sans MS.
…Oh no, I’m re-heating font jokes that people older than me found funny decades ago. What has this present political climate reduced us to?
Nah, should be Papyrus, it pretends it’s a return to tradition but it’s really just ugly and racist.
OK I love that fonts stir up such strong feelings in people… but racist? How tf is papyrus racist?
I’m mostly kidding with that one. It’s a tiny fraction of why that Chinese takeout font is racist, it’s (very lightly, in the case of Papyrus) the way a foreign script looks to someone who doesn’t actually understand how to read that foreign script rendered as a latin alphabet. Like yeah, I guess that’s a valid argument but I am in no way cancelling papyrus and nobody should care about this argument, lol.
I thought you were kidding but I just had to know lol. Like to make a case for Papyrus being racist you’d firstly have to say who it’s being racist towards, and it’s just a bit… vague… for that. Na’vi maybe?
don’t you know they write
on[with] papyrus in Egypt and therefore it’s african and african means black especially in statesia.we don’t write in black, we write in charcoal. because black just makes me look whiter.
that’s the best i can think up, sorry.
It’s tribal yet futuristic
Papyrus? Are you kidding me? There’s no place for that in a professional office setting!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FTfxtyDpqWI&pp=0gcJCR4Bo7VqN5tD
WEBDINGS!
Times New Roman is precisely what Trump admin wants. You know, since the far right has a hard on on the Roman empire.
i wouldn’t argue with comic sans personally. i hear it’s a good font for some types of dyslexia. i’d rather have more people be able to read it than look dignified.
There are other even more dyslexic-legible fonts that IMO look better
Don’t forget there also fucks kids and they are protecting him.
I have never in my life tied a font to politics or morality.
spoken like a Gill Sans user
𝕬𝖗𝖊 𝖞𝖔𝖚 𝖘𝖚𝖗𝖊 𝖆𝖇𝖔𝖚𝖙 𝖙𝖍𝖆𝖙?
Tis not the font but the fonter.
Garamond does look somewhat Apple-ishly pretentious, and Lucida does evoke associations with Sun and some corporate spirit, and Arial\TNR\CN trio does feel like “Windows font classic” combination.
But banning a more readable font to show you have “decorum” … there’s a word “чмошник” in Russian, I’ve recently realized I’m that, and also a whole crowd of adults and peers around me 13 years ago. Actually there’s just one girl who wasn’t that, and one adult. Who got the shortest straws in that story.
That word means someone miserable and envious enough to look for confirmations and signs of coolness in all things they use and do.
I’ve also recently realized that I don’t like computer people, and of other professions dealing with calculation and materiel. They are glorified bookkeepers and managers. The reason tech workers dislike management so much is because the whole industry is much like machine-assisted management. Paradox of small differences.
Yeah, I know you lot like being perceived as magicians and the industry as having something to do with intelligence. Read de Saint-Exupery’s Citadel, there’s a passage on “a special book for generals”, and you will recognize that whole industry, from its lowly brick layers to its prophets.
чмошник (rude, derogatory) schmuck, stooge, sleazeball, jerk (contemptible person)
So yeah I agree.
About me? Well, I don’t object, as I’ve just said. Perhaps I’m just tired of computers. I like them as tools. But I don’t worship wooden planks or vinyl panels or concrete from which houses are built.
That rudeness was in self-critique anyway.
If that helps, Tolkien’s “Leaf by Niggle” I prefer much to “Citadel”. But it’s not matter of preference, I can’t hide from what that book says.
Or if that’s about Rubio, I don’t think anyone doubted.
i mean you can’t spell calibri without lib. where’s your god now, atheists?
At the same time it’s reminiscent of “caliber”, which one would expect to appeal to good Christians.
So this is 100 percent true, verifiable, by me. Just keep in mind this is the same admin that wanted to cut ‘frivolous spending’. Think for a minute the wasted development hours changing the font on every webpage on every portal that DoS uses. Seriously, it’s fucking stupid.
Must be a slow day in the state department…
