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Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri

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Re: Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri

#131

I still can’t believe they switched to Calibri at all; the only people who should be using Calibri are people who don’t realize that Microsoft Word lets you pick other fonts. I do wish they’d gone for a classier serif though; Garamond was right there .

You think the US govenment would go for a French typeface?

There's a certain je ne sais quoi to the US government's relationship with France.

  Le problème avec les Américains, c'est qu'ils n'ont pas de mot pour «entrepreneur».

Re: Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri

#132

> present a unified, professional voice in all communications Might want to start by banning tweeting then.

Professionalism: "Quiet piggy. Are you stupid? You don't have to embarrass our guest by asking a question like that. You're a terrible reporter. Horrible. Insubordinate. You're ugly both inside and out, and a nasty person."

Re: Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm laughing at their sheer incompetence. This is coming from a minority who has been targeted by US governments policies and has lost friends because of this. Yes, the US government is a laughing stock while we have sympathy for those negatively impacted by the decisions made by these incompetent idiots.

you and I have very different definitions of joke it seems.

I think you just need to read more. Your comprehension of common terms in context is lacking.

Re: Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri

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I'll never understand this silly take. they just took a venezuelan oil tanker. is that a joke to you? you might disagree with what they're doing, or argue they are incompetent , but joke is very strange take. they are very serious. ask some undocumented immigrants in the USA about how much they're joking. in fact - any country seeing what trump is doing both domestically and internationally and not taking their actio…

Obviously they would take a Venezuelan oil tanker. Oil is the only reason Trump is interested in Venezuela.

https://intelpoint.co/insights/venezuela-saudi-arabia-and-ir...

Re: Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri

#137

Even if you believe the previous administration switching fonts was virtue signaling, then by the same logic you have to also believe this is just virtue signalling.

No? If signalling led to an decision, the reversal is not automatically signalling based. Calibri is just not a good font.

Re: Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri

#139

Even if you believe the previous administration switching fonts was virtue signaling, then by the same logic you have to also believe this is just virtue signalling.

I'm really out of the loop on this. What virtue is being signaled by who? I know people get real touchy about fonts, but I have a hard time understanding why this is even a news article.

Because politicians are making political choices on fonts rather than leaving those matters to technicians.
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