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I don’t know if anyone here realized this but the font in question here is made by Fredrick Brennan who is probably best known as the founder of 8chan
i like… have complicated feelings on the guy. on the one hand, it's important to congratulate him on realizing the harm his actions did and working to undo all that. on the other he did years of harm that has yet to be undone and might never be undone. and everyone only gets so much grace. i'm glad he realized all his online friends were nazis and stopped hanging out with them, but on the other it's hard to trust the judgement of someone who hung out with nazis for years.
I think it's definitely necessary to accept people who did bad things if they truly change and realize the problems they've caused. That applies not just to people who hang out with Nazis but also actual Nazis. When you get out of a far right group, you basically lose all your friends at once and if there's nothing else to go back to, it will make people think twice before going that step even if they're ready for it.
100%
You were a nazi your whole life but now you’ve been fighting nazis for years, we gonna trash you or what? Definitely shouldn’t.
Welcome people to the light!
Looks like a historical Americana version of Fraktur. In case the original wasn't Nazi enough
Anything to do with Chomsky lol??
I mean it's clearly just a little joke (quite a good one IMO) based on the fact that it's a US-Constitution-like font.
The only question is whether the person who signed off on making this live was in on the joke. I suspect not, I think they probably thought "oh that's a weird name for a font."
My first thought was NYT font actually, it made me laugh quite a bit. I think the Chomsky reference is real.
To me it looks like the font for a Nazi-era newspaper headline.
Weird they all look the same, right?
You're probably thinking of Blackletter, which was quite common in Germany.
Probably; seeing this font is giving me the urge to illegally bomb Cambodia
How would one bomb Cambodia legally anyway?
You get the Supreme Court to give you a little piece of paper that says, "I can do what I want."
By having congress authorize it, hopefully with actual cause (dear god they don’t even need a good reason…)
So, congress’s decisions counts as globally legal?
I never specified that I was talking about international law. That said, the Rome Statute didn’t exist back then and even if it did, it could be argued that “hot persuit” doctrine allowed it as it was Vietnamese forces that were the first to violate Cambodian sovereignty. I still think the bombing was completly morally repugnant and against the interests of both justice and US war goals, but I’m not sure it would qualify as a war crime.
Mai Lai on the other hand was a war crime, full stop.
All of Google's fonts are manufacturing consent.
How so
google, as a corporation, has been pushing us all to move a particular way for years. it's most obvious in the YouTube recommendations algorithm which pushes right wing shit. their fonts platform just gives them more control over the entire web instead of just acting as an index.
Can you elaborate more?
Do you have specific questions or do you just want people to talk for you?
this post was submitted on 16 Jul 2025
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