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Anything to do with Chomsky lol??
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.
My Lai was a little worse than usual, but it was also pretty much the MO for American forces. Lt. Calley was just bloodthirsty enough to do it as an official operation, making enough of a gestalt to attract some attention, instead of just having a handful of people on patrol to do it and then come back to base and play cards after like nothing happened. And then again the next week, and then again the week after that.
Fashion brands celebrating rn (fuck you Nike)
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.
Oh.... holy shit. I think you're right. That's a much better joke.
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.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackletter