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Rubio stages font coup: Times New Roman ousts Calibri

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chinathrow ◴[11 Dec 25 07:47 UTC] No.46228736[source]▶
> U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Tuesday ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor Antony Blinken's decision to adopt Calibri a "wasteful" diversity move, according to an internal department cable seen by Reuters.

What a waste of government time and spending.

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baggachipz ◴[11 Dec 25 14:45 UTC] No.46231999[source]▶
The levels of pettiness in this administration know no bounds. I'm sure they'll forbid the use of "woke", and require all government employees to say "I terminated sleep this morning".
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1. stronglikedan ◴[11 Dec 25 15:18 UTC] No.46232433[source]▶
What an odd take. Every administration does this sort of petty stuff. nothing new under the sun.
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2. mgkimsal ◴[11 Dec 25 15:34 UTC] No.46232657[source]▶
Petty as in 'small and does not really matter' or petty as in 'vindictive'. All administrations do many small things that may not ultimately have much impact, but often those may be for benign reasons. Understanding the reasoning behind the decisions would help in determining what kind of 'petty' this is.
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3. Swenrekcah ◴[11 Dec 25 15:49 UTC] No.46232855[source]▶
This is demonstrably false. Previous administrations have not. It used to be normal to do things like keeping cabinet members appointed by their opponents or not put up a mocking picture of your predecessor in the white house.
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4. dragonwriter ◴[11 Dec 25 16:02 UTC] No.46233062[source]▶
> It used to be normal to do things like keeping cabinet members appointed by their opponents

This particular thing was not all that common between Presidents who succeed normally by election. I think the most recent was Robert Gates serving as SecDef across the Bush II/Obama transition, before that there were five kept across the Reagan/Bush I transition, and no more in the post-WWII period.

(It’s true that the pettiness level in this Administration is unprecedented, but this is not a valid example.)

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5. Swenrekcah ◴[11 Dec 25 16:15 UTC] No.46233249{3}[source]▶
True, I didn’t mean it was routine but it was somewhat normal. I just wanted to show the incredible range of professional behaviour that has disappeared.
6. TheOtherHobbes ◴[11 Dec 25 16:17 UTC] No.46233272[source]▶
Both.

It's so utterly juvenile and unprofessional. The kind of thing a petulant twelve year-old does for attention.

7. baggachipz ◴[11 Dec 25 16:42 UTC] No.46233657[source]▶
Absolutely vindictive. He goes out of his way to cite "DEI" in his comments.