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[-] floofloof@lemmy.ca 28 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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?

[-] lectricleopard@lemmy.world 15 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] athatet@lemmy.zip 10 points 4 months ago

Fascists always go after disabled people first because it’s harder for them to fight back and fascists are cowards.

Gotta hurt. Thats the policy.

[-] obinice@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

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!

[-] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 18 points 4 months ago

Were the Epstein files too legible?

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[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 15 points 4 months ago

its a nice distraction of whats going in with the epstein files, and immigration.

[-] Rhoeri@lemmy.world 15 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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.

[-] umbraroze@slrpnk.net 14 points 4 months ago

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?

[-] AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 months ago

Nah, should be Papyrus, it pretends it's a return to tradition but it's really just ugly and racist.

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[-] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Times New Roman is precisely what Trump admin wants. You know, since the far right has a hard on on the Roman empire.

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[-] PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world 14 points 4 months ago

Imagine being so much snowflake that a simple font upsets you. Words fail.

[-] taiyang@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] Damage@feddit.it 1 points 4 months ago

Times New Roman is disgusting

[-] billwashere@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

This has got to be one of the dumbest things I’ve ever heard.

[-] Tryenjer@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

They should ban toilet paper, it's too woke.

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[-] MehBlah@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

I have never in my life tied a font to politics or morality.

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[-] switcheroo@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

Oh they found that the font was helping someone. Can't have that.

These people are such fucking trash...

[-] cenzorrll@piefed.ca 5 points 4 months ago

Calibri kind of sucks, it's better on screen then TNR, but it's ugly as shit still. A better font could probably be found that reads well on screen and in print. But:

Rubio did admit in the memo that Calibri wasn’t the “most illegal, immoral, radical or wasteful” example of DEI to his mind’s eye, but he still berated the font for contributing to “the degradation” of the State Department’s official correspondence.

Fuck this guy, regardless.

[-] mirshafie@europe.pub 2 points 4 months ago

Nah man I can actually get on board with this. I used to hate Times New Roman but it's streets ahead of the scourge that is Calibri, and with modern monitors serif fonts look fine.

[-] buttnugget@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

The problem isn’t the font itself, it’s the fact that they’re being reactionary.

[-] dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 5 points 4 months ago

You know how if you're reading a headline from the onion and you mistake it for real you've "eaten the onion?"

Is there a name for the reverse phenomenon? Where a real headline reflecting actual reality is so ridiculous that you reject it out of hand as satire only to realize it was genuine? Regurgitating the onion? What's the name for this?

[-] demonsword@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Is there a name for the reverse phenomenon?

the onion has eaten you, maybe

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[-] teft@piefed.social 3 points 4 months ago

"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.

[-] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 1 points 4 months ago

They've never been for small government. This lie needs to be called out every single time.

[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 points 4 months ago

The government AND the national debt ALWAYS grow under Republicans.

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[-] cley_faye@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Everybody knows that this is yet another distraction, but how fragile are they ready to look like. They feel threatened by a text font and some numbers these days.

[-] spongebue@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago
[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

i mean you can't spell calibri without lib. where's your god now, atheists?

[-] Bosht@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

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.

[-] My_IFAKs___gone@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

I hope this gets incorporated in a College Humor font wars sketch...

[-] devedeset@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 months ago

The font was chosen in an effort to make documents easier to read for the vision impaired.

This is like removing the requirement of having curb ramps on new sidewalks because it makes it possible for people in wheelchairs to navigate

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[-] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

He wanted to make it Times Neo Nazi but was informed that didn't exist

(please no one check or inform me if that's actually a thing or even close to real)

[-] IonTempted@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 4 months ago

"Unlike you woke snowflakes I use Times New Roman"

[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 months ago

he should use Comic Sans.

[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 months ago

That's it, were only going to use comic Sans serif from now on!

[-] motor_spirit@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

legitimately can't imagine being this much of an obedient and brainless little bitch

[-] HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 months ago

Hope someone throws acid in his face and impairs his vision. That would be golden.

[-] Marshezezz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 months ago

More distractions

[-] Saeveo@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

All future documents must be in Fraktur.

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[-] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 months ago

That's it. I'm going to ban cupboards in my house for being to DEI too!

Makes about as much sense to me as banning a "DEI font"

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