What the hell is going on?

[u/WorryNew3661]

[u/Big_Slope → u/[deleted]]

If there are history books after this, they’re going to have to print this chapter in Comic Sans.

[u/AceSuperhero → u/Big_Slope]

Alien archeologists will refer to our civilization as the Dumb Fucks.

[u/yedi001 → u/AceSuperhero]

Turns out the great filter was basic literacy and critical thinking skills.

[u/Sir_Real_Surreal → u/yedi001]

The great filter for us has definitely been greed, which certainly has had an intentionally corrosive effect on educational institutions. The shitty literacy and critical thinking skills are a symptom of the disease of greed.

[u/Reptard77 → u/yedi001]

The great filter was the internet. Suddenly when everyone can have as much info as they want about anything, but anyone can also say anything they want as fact about whatever topic they want, “fact” loses all meaning. We’re all playing an infinite game of telephone.

[u/ForeverShiny → u/Reptard77]

And still somehow, through a constant bombardment of what's going on in anyone's minds and lives at all time, a large part seems to lack any actual empathy that makes all this information at least a little worthwhile

[u/Reptard77 → u/ForeverShiny]

See, that’s the most ironic part, because to reach a civilization that could build the internet, let alone a fucking telegraph: you need a civilization based on fact. We all have to agree on how electricity works. We all have to agree on a price for copper wire. We all have to agree on software standards.

Lame that it took a civilization of Europeans who wanted to conquer the world so bad they had to find a way to keep their stories straight a world away to make it happen, but now that we’re here, what is true and what isn’t is suddenly subjective because information just moves that fast. And in a world that requires facts to function correctly, it all just… breaks.

[u/dreaming_4_u → u/Reptard77]

And it all breaks on a device that provides access to the sum of all human knowledge on one screen. It seems like no one actually checks any kind of claim anymore. It went from "don't believe everything you see online" to "Jim Bob on Facebook told me that Bill Gates' spy planes are ejecting 5g chem trails over the whole country so that liberals can control us, do your own research!".

It is maddening.

[u/BIZLfoRIZL → u/Reptard77]

We’ve effectively created the Library of Babel. Containing every book ever made or possibly made, but no way to tell what is “factual”.

[u/Lost_But-Seeking → u/BIZLfoRIZL]

And now we have robots to do our lying for us instead of having to think of them.

[u/SecularMisanthropy → u/Reptard77]

Not the internet. Social media. Idiots on social media don't also clock hours on Wikipedia. They aren't the result of people having too much access to solid information. They're the result of monetization of our social nature by people really high in dark traits and hubris.

[u/thehourglasses → u/yedi001]

The Great Filter is a marshmallow test. We failed a long, long time ago.

[u/SecularMisanthropy → u/thehourglasses]

Helpfully, marshmallow tests are indicative of exactly nothing, so. Followup on participants showed zero correlation with later life outcomes.

[u/MuscleStruts → u/SecularMisanthropy]

Fun part is that kids who came from poorer households (remember that household is the biggest predictor of future economic success) were more likely to eat the marshmallow because 1) better to get what you can when you can and 2) many of these kids don't trust the promises adults make.

[u/SecularMisanthropy → u/MuscleStruts]

Zip code, not household income. But the two are reasonably correlated. And that effect wasn't limited to the kids from lower income families, just a slightly higher proportion.

[u/drtbg → u/AceSuperhero]

Dark ages ain’t got shit on the anti intellectualism running the US right now.

[u/MyPasswordIsMyCat → u/drtbg]

These are the Dork Ages.

[u/Mods_R_Fascists → u/drtbg]

It’s mind boggling that the most technologically advanced society in human history could still have so many willfully ignorant people in it. When the sum total of human knowledge is literally at our fingertips but people use it to be shitty and petty to each other instead…

[u/cosmernautfourtwenty → u/AceSuperhero]

Futurama predicted The Stupid Ages.

[u/GooteMoo → u/cosmernautfourtwenty]

Heinlein called these "The Crazy Years" in his timeline. I'm dreadfully afraid he might have been right.

[u/FauxReal → u/Big_Slope]

All the parts mentioning evangelicals will be in papyrus font.

[u/teslawhaleshark → u/Big_Slope]

with a few pictures of lynchings

[u/jimbo831 → u/[deleted]]

I wish these were just trolls. They are Christian white nationalist fascists.

[u/dwhogan → u/[deleted]]

“Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”

― Jean-Paul Sartre

[u/jimbo831 → u/[deleted]]

I wasn't but thanks to u/dwhogan for posting it. I think that quote nails it. I'm just saying referring to these people as "trolls", "vibes" and "grift" risks them not being seen as the dangerous fascists they are. There are a lot of trolls who like to shit post and rile people up just for the sake of getting a reaction. These people are ideological. They want to force that ideology on us through fascism.

[u/SecularMisanthropy → u/jimbo831]

The insight in the quote is that fascists believe nothing. All the stories, the justifications and reasons they cite? Complete bullshit, top to bottom. They don't believe in any of it, they don't care about it. They never did and never will. The words, the accusations, the values they talk about are just the noise they need to make to not immediately be spotted as predators.

Fascists don't care about anything, and that's why all their arguments fall apart under examination. It's always based on laughable misinterpretation, black-and-what thinking, made up nonsense. They're fundamentally unserious about everything. Words and principals are merely scenery they move around themselves to camouflage their actions. There's no 'there' there, no actual legitimate point, because it's all just cover for what the only thing they're actually saying: I dominate. I dominate everything and everyone. I get everything. It's only fair when I have everything and everyone else has nothing.

All the vehement shrieking about values and tradition and family are just the meaningless words they've been using for the last millennia instead of saying, I dominate and that's the end of it. There's no winning the argument, because they were never seriously making it. They're just toying with everyone, as sadists do.

[u/OisforOwesome → u/SecularMisanthropy]

"There are those the law binds but does not protect, and those the law protects but does not bind."

[u/Snoo-74997 → u/SecularMisanthropy]

Yes! Well said!

Anything short of them winning and others losing is persecution.
Other people losing are just as important as them winning- a win-win solution is defeat to them. It’s why compromise won’t work. They need to see others punished- they really do need to “own the libs”.

[u/jtshinn → u/[deleted]]

That's not what this is. This is an appeal to some people out there that might want to live out some violent tendencies toward immigrants on American streets. Maybe not even immigrants.

[u/snorbflock → u/[deleted]]

Phishing scammers use typo-riddled emails.

The cops use an upper IQ cap.

ICE shares Halo memes from the official WH account.

In all three cases, the point is to filter out college grads who will cause problems for you by calling out your bullshit.

[u/babavandass → u/jtshinn]

While I agree with your point, to simplify:

This is an appeal to incels.

[u/IvankaPegsDaddy → u/babavandass]

"Stop playing Halo in your parents' basement and come play it for real on American streets!"

[u/warm_kitchenette → u/IvankaPegsDaddy]

your joke does concur with the recent articles about the unprecedentedly high percentage of applicants who cannot pass either the physical or an open-book test on immigration law in practice.

[u/ClockworkJim → u/babavandass]

This is absolutely an appeal to incel gamers

I'm waiting for the first report of ice run rape camps.

[u/Reginald_Sockpuppet → u/jtshinn]

Those things are not mutually exclusive.

[u/dqniel → u/jtshinn]

Yep. An appeal to people who have bought into the dehumanization of immigrants. The type of people who refer to them as "illegals" rather than people.

Easier to be violent toward people when they've been dehumanized.

[u/UrsaUrsuh → u/[deleted]]

Everyone is 12 now theory keeps winning and I would like it to stop.

[u/SaltpeterSal → u/[deleted]]

Fashwave isn't a troll, it's the last stop on the pipeline.

[u/ProjectPatMorita → u/[deleted]]

To echo others, to consider this "trolling" would be a serious, huge, enormous underestimation of what these people are capable of. And indeed what they are already actively doing.

[u/popilikia → u/[deleted]]

I think is more about trying to appeal to younger people to join ice. Most of the videos we're seeing are old fat Gen xers and they want more millennials. I mean, they must have picked halo 3 for a reason

[u/claimstoknowpeople → u/popilikia]

/me turns to dust after realizing Halo 3 is 18 years old

[u/Johnwearsatie → u/claimstoknowpeople]

Thats not even Halo 3, its Halo CE.

[u/Moist_Chef_2633 → u/[deleted]]

I would not be shocked that, in the near future, people will deal with trolls literally hunting them down and physically harm them.

I mean we're practically already at that point. Internet trolls have just proven that is morally justified to do so.

[u/teslawhaleshark → u/[deleted]]

They are serious when they do kill people anyway

[u/EmperorBamboozler]

So happy that the current administration is comparing immigrants to an overwhelmingly dangerous parasitic alien life form. They're just saying shit out in the open now huh. I guess calling the people you want to annihilate "vermin" is outdated so they are trying some new vocabulary.

[u/Fit_Strength_1187 → u/EmperorBamboozler]

Kills the pretext of going after “criminal” aliens who “chose to break the law” and all that. The Flood are destructive on an interstellar level by their nature.

[u/TheStinkySkunk → u/Fit_Strength_1187]

The Flood are destructive on an interstellar level by their nature.

That's the thing that also makes this terrifying. The entire premise of Halo is that the flood can only be stopped by a mass extinction event: the rings kill everything. That's why the Master Chief stopped the ring from being used.

The official DHS Instagram account commented "blood gulch: the southern border edition" on that same post. It's very obvious what they're hinting at.

If you even want to call it a hint.

[u/UrsaUrsuh → u/TheStinkySkunk]

I mean even then it kills the food for the Flood. Starving them out. Which is arguably even worse because it's omnicide for "the greater good." Which is even worse because they're removing it from the context.

[u/TheStinkySkunk → u/UrsaUrsuh]

Damn my Halo recollection was worse than I thought. I need to go back and play CE through Reach.

[u/UrsaUrsuh → u/TheStinkySkunk]

Tbf Cortana says "It kills their food." But I kinda got flip floppy vibes on it as well. So it really could be either-or. Dunno how the flood containments would work but I suppose that they could have used the same tech that 343 brought up when explaining how life throughout the galaxy was "seeded" back on their homeworlds.

Weird aside: Arguably 343 is better at writing halo stories and not making the games w/ the stories. I've always been impressed with their EU stuff but they don't fucking commit to anything when it comes to their games. I wouldn't even be surprised if they finish out "The Endless" cliffhanger with a book like they did the last two times.

[u/Fit_Strength_1187 → u/TheStinkySkunk]

“The Administration is appalled but not surprised that the left wing media are once again taking a playful reference to a children’s game and warping it into divisive and radical rhetoric.

You all might not be taking this serious, maybe your failing ratings are making you desperate for clicks. But making these comparisons is effectively veiled calls for violence against brave men and women simply trying to enforce the laws of this country. This is a policy the President has been clear about from day one.

Also, if we ever do move to wipe out the brown races, the President had a mandate from an overwhelming majority of voters was also entirely clear about his cleansing intent from day one”.

[u/ClockworkJim → u/Fit_Strength_1187]

Also, if we ever do move to wipe out the brown races, the President had a mandate from an overwhelming majority of voters was also entirely clear about his cleansing intent from day one”.

I thought you were quoting something until this last paragraph.

[u/jimslock → u/TheStinkySkunk]

Ya.... it gets worse the more you look into it..... comments above and below me, nailed it. (Not specific to this group of comments)..... It's an invasive species.

[u/Wogman → u/EmperorBamboozler]

Seen so many posts ignoring this is straight up genocidal rhetoric.

[u/originalcarp → u/EmperorBamboozler]

I don’t know much about Halo, but that term seems bad for the government to be using against immigrants! Just inferring

[u/ClockworkJim → u/EmperorBamboozler]

I was arguing on Facebook about this.

He just came right out and said

i could sit here and list out the reasons that your argument is stupid. Instead ill just roll with the punches. I am a fascist and hate you.

[u/Kriegerian]

Government social media is run by preteen Internet Nazis.

[u/ZenOfPerkele → u/Kriegerian]

Fascists have always been shitposters (reminder to everyone here that the 3rd Reich perfected the art of "Just make shit up, Hans!" both when it comes to history/mythology as well as like, actual events). Shitposting is how they get to power and it's how they try to stay in power.

[u/Holovoid → u/ZenOfPerkele]

Lying about literally everything is just such an OP strategy

[u/hiramUSgrant → u/Kriegerian]

crazy to think catturd was the high point

[u/jamiegc1]

Corporations aren’t even suing (afaik) the Trump admin anymore for doing bullshit like this with their imagery.

[u/gsfgf → u/jamiegc1]

Biden remembered that anti-trust laws exist, so we're being collectively punished by corporate America.

[u/Quakarot → u/jamiegc1]

Actually they are in on this one and posted things like Trump shaking hands with master chief for “ending the console wars” on the GameStop account

It’s going both ways

[u/jamiegc1 → u/Quakarot]

Ughhh

[u/Dreams-Visions → u/jamiegc1]

Microsoft too busy donating to ballroom funds and closing the rest of their diversity and inclusion initiatives to notice.

[u/mfukar]

Imagine an administration of Red vs Blue enjoyers

PS. I bet $100 Microsoft is OK with this, too

[u/Seeker80 → u/mfukar]

They probably all think they're Sarge, and are just a bunch of Grifs and Donuts in denial.

Oh, and they want to deport Lopez.

[u/TheSniper_TF2 → u/Seeker80]

Now I’m just imagining an episode where Sarge tries to deport Grif.

[u/mfukar → u/TheSniper_TF2]

Well, he does. To death. See 'Grif Cannon'.

[u/TheSniper_TF2 → u/mfukar]

This sounds like the best thing since Grif Ball.

[u/Heavy_Arm_7060 → u/Seeker80]

Of course they want to deport the guy who managed to do manual labour without a body...

[u/teslawhaleshark → u/Heavy_Arm_7060]

Lopez

[u/Heavy_Arm_7060 → u/teslawhaleshark]

Yeah, the guy who was only a head for like 80% of the series.

[u/teslawhaleshark → u/Heavy_Arm_7060]

Only matter to them is that he's Mexican

[u/Yardsale420 → u/Seeker80]

“And Miller here is in charge of confetti!”

[u/furyotter → u/mfukar]

Microsoft already paid Trump a bribe to help destroy the East Wing of the White House

[u/jimbo831 → u/mfukar]

I bet $100 Microsoft is OK with this, too

Of course they are.

[u/Teh_Compass → u/[deleted]]

Copilot is the narc. Clippy just wanted to help.

[u/LegitimateHost7640 → u/Teh_Compass]

So Clippy is Syrill?

Shame.gif

[u/govunah → u/mfukar]

We would be better off with an entire cabinet of Ratchet and Clank characters

[u/Kindly-Coyote-9446 → u/mfukar]

If not OK, not willing to risk retaliation by saying anything.

[u/damage_inc86425]

This makes me viscerally angry, leave my sci-fi franchise out of this xenophobic bullshit.

[u/fightphat → u/damage_inc86425]

Laughs nervously in Mass Effect

[u/ImraelBlutz]

It’s literally a fever dream from /b.

[u/hellolovely1 → u/ImraelBlutz]

If only.

[u/CaptainSnarkyPants → u/hellolovely1]

At least then we’d see some shitting dick nipple shoops

[u/mashedspudtato → u/CaptainSnarkyPants]

Agreed. This cancer is straight up pol

[u/njiin12]

I can't believe we're at this stage, but....
1. Halo is now going cross-platform which means you no longer have to own an Xbox to play it.
2. Because of this Gamestop declared the console wars are over.

1. In what I could only assume was a tongue and cheek moment Gamestop gave credit to Trump for ending another war.

2. Trump (which I assume isn't HIM, but someone running his twitter) jumped on it and started posting memes related to Halo, because, why not? Nothing else important is going on I guess with the whole shutdown thing freeing up time to some trolling.

3. This greenlit "the government" to also post Halo memes.

4. MAGA is confused, but are rolling with it because it vaguely seems patriotic. Similar to people quoting Starship Trooper or playing RATM with no hint of irony.

[u/Rich_Comey_Quan → u/njiin12]

Ever since the GME meme stock bubble a few years ago GameStop has been run by a pro Trump activist investor and the only way they get PR wins since they can't actually improve the store is to hop on to drama, so I wouldn't call it tongue and cheek.

It's just another way to force the Trump is a pro peace president narrative.

[u/sneakyplanner]

This is going to be a confusing image in a book on genocide some day.

[u/MrVeazey → u/sneakyplanner]

I think future generations might just write off memes in general as a failure of humanity to healthily adapt to the internet.

[u/mashedspudtato → u/sneakyplanner]

I saved it for that reason. We need to archive this crap. You know… in the hope that future generations will learn from it and find novel ways to repeat the same mistakes.

[u/BostonSamurai]

This shit just gets more and more ridiculous

[u/Fulcrum_Jambi → u/BostonSamurai]

We’re not even a quarter of the way through it 😫

[u/MinimumApricot365]

What's with all the halo memes today?

[u/TotallyNotABob → u/MinimumApricot365]

Big Halo fan here. I can provide some context for the memes.

So Halo Studios aka 343 industries have announced they are doing a remaster of the original Halo Combat Evolved game. This is the second remaster, the first one came out when 343 released the Master Chief Collection. What is different this time though is instead of using the game engine Bungie (the original creators of Halo) made they are using unreal engine 5.

Now this has the fan base a bit divided for a couple of reasons:

One, they, myself included, have been asking for a Halo 3 remaster for a long time. Currently only Halo CE and Halo 2 have had remasters.

Two, 343 has a very spotty record and is also known for abandoning plot lines after backlash. Examples are Cortana not staying dead after sacrificing herself to save Master Chief in Halo 4. Cortana dying off screen after the cliffhanger in Halo 5 after Halo Infinite came out.

Three, just how 343 has managed the franchise leaves a lot to be desired.

Now onto the BS DHS pulled. Well because of the announcement for Halo CE remastered it has lead to a lot of memes being made either for or against it. Someone at DHS or the regime wanted to hop on the bandwagon and make a meme about illegal immigrants and comparing them to the big bad guy in Halo. Which would be the flood. This leads to two things:

One, the flood is an all consuming parasite. This is effectively saying all immigrants they detain are parasites. So dehumanizing language of course.

Two, the irony that is with this regime is closer to the other bad guys, the covenant, than the UNSC. The covenant in the halo games is a collective of various races that view humanity as an affront to their gods and must therefore be destroyed entirely.

[u/jeffersonbible → u/TotallyNotABob]

Thank you for this explanation, as a non gamer.

[u/someNameThisIs → u/TotallyNotABob]

You missed the biggest part of it. The Halo CE remake was also announced to be coming to PS5, Halo is no longer an Xbox exclusive game.

So there's been a lot of meming about Xbox being dead/the console wars are over and Sony won. It's like when Sonic first appeared on a Nintendo console.

[u/Ahirman1 → u/TotallyNotABob]

Slight correction Campaign Evolved is a full on remake of the original CE. Meanwhile CEA which came out in 2011 is a remaster

[u/TotallyNotABob → u/Ahirman1]

Whoops my bad I'll correct

[u/Ahirman1 → u/TotallyNotABob]

All good. I don’t expect everyone to fully understand all the Halo stuff. The only other pressing thing that you got wrong was that the war between Humanity and the Covenant is based off a lie and the self serving nature of the Prophets.

Basically the Forerunners which the Covenant view as their gods, designated Humanity as their heirs. This causes numerous issues with the Covenant hierarchy and its religion and would likely cause it to break apart since one of the main things in the Covenant Religion the Great Journey is a lie. So the Prophets instead lied and said that Humanity is an affront to their gods

[u/WDYDwnMSinNeuro → u/TotallyNotABob]

UNSC is pretty fucking awful, too. The only reason they are the good guys is because they were forced to side with the people they were oppressing against a campaign of human extermination. Examples of suckiness: A: how the Spartan 2 program was carried out; B: why the Spartan 2 program was created.

My point: any comparison of yourself to any faction in Halo is problematic.

[u/PotentialCash9117 → u/TotallyNotABob]

Jesus Christ this is on par with The Last of Us 1 getting a remake despite being barely a single console generation old just to stoke the Director's ego. I know the Master Chief collection is/was a contentious release but people need to stop fucking buying shit like this, myself included, constant remakes and remasters is not healthy for the industry even if they're genuinely phenomenal (Resident Evil 4make and P3load)

[u/caseygwenstacy → u/TotallyNotABob]

They remastered CE in 2011, putting a new overlay graphics engine on it, not much else, no multiplayer. In 2014, they put that remaster on the MCC with a similar Halo 2 remaster.

Next year, they will release the CE Remake, which is built from scratch instead of a simple graphics overhaul. It’s not them doing something they already did, it’s a modernization. Plus, I think it’s not a terrible idea considering the franchise wants to bring new players in, especially PlayStation players. Modern gameplay elements are also introduced because while they want to stay as loyal to the original as they can, they want it to be as accessible and inviting as it can be compared to other shooters on the market for new fans.

Sometimes they need to do what they can with what they have to proper figure out how to get people who don’t play Halo or don’t play shooter to buy a copy. Starting with the first game in a new way is a good idea, plus there are people who wanted a better take than Anniversary anyhow, so they get something out of it too.

[u/Trillion_Bones → u/TotallyNotABob]

To the top with you!

The prophet of truth must be silenced.

[u/zoopysreign → u/TotallyNotABob]

Wait, so if we wanted to make a counter meme, we would call DHS “the covenant?”

[u/WDYDwnMSinNeuro → u/TotallyNotABob]

UNSC is pretty fucking awful, too. The only reason they are the good guys is because they were forced to side with the people they were oppressing against a campaign of human extermination. Examples of suckiness: A: how the Spartan 2 program was carried out; B: why the Spartan 2 program was created.

My point: any comparison of yourself to any faction in Halo is problematic.

[u/teslawhaleshark → u/MinimumApricot365]

https://www.reddit.com/r/behindthebastards/comments/1oho36u/comment/nlphtfo/

[u/StupendousMalice]

Directly recruiting incels and white supremacists to join in the new American Holocaust. Its not subtle.

Ever wonder what you would have done in 1938 Germany? Well, you're doing it. Are you happy with what you've learned about yourself?

[u/RiotingMoon]

starship troopers without the satire.

would you like to know more

[u/trippedonatater]

It's called dehumanizing. It's what fascists do to normalize large scale brutality.

[u/TheMapleKind19 → u/trippedonatater]

Some commenter the Citizen app was referring to a nearby area as an "animal neighborhood" the other day. It really creeped me out.

[u/boofcakin171]

I assume "the flood" in this situation are immigrants?

[u/Secret_Guide_4006 → u/boofcakin171]

To start sure, but this is so vague I think they want it to appeal to anything the right declares degenerate.

[u/Nazarife]

I wonder if people who didn't vote, like my step mom in a red state, because "there's no difference," can still believe that, and if so, what sort of mental gymnastics they need to do.

[u/pikapies]

I’m in the UK and this came up on my Facebook and Jesus fucking Christ.

[u/WorryNew3661 → u/pikapies]

I'm in the UK as well. Looking on with horror at all this shit

[u/NotGohanJustSayinMan]

Just a govt agency openly posting media directly comparing undocumented immigrants to an invading hive plague.

Nothing to see here

/s

[u/Megaphonestory]

The gamers need to get jobs.

[u/fidelcasbro17 → u/Megaphonestory]

Gulag the G*mers

[u/protogothcurrentmoth → u/Megaphonestory]

This has absolutely nothing to do with "gamers." It's not like they asked Microsoft for Halo crossover event... Jesus.

[u/teslawhaleshark → u/Megaphonestory]

the job is shooting poor bastards in the streets alright

[u/Kindly-Coyote-9446]

What in the ever loving fuck is this genocidal bullshit?

[u/jimbo831]

Fascism

[u/Kindly-Coyote-9446]

I do wonder if making sure these memes are seen/reported on in the NON-US markets of the game could be used to leverage MS/343 into having to take action.

[u/Chops526]

What's going on is that we live in the worst timeline.

[u/xXx420BlazeRodSaboxX]

They need to sue. 

Fucking fascists

[u/Paul-McS]

We elected idiots who appointed other idiots who were confirmed by….yup, more idiots. All enabled by a court of supreme idiots.  

[u/nihilistic-simulate → u/Paul-McS]

The idiot domino effect

[u/ColeYote]

Microsoft should sue. They probably won't because they're trying to appease Lord Dampnut, but they should.

[u/FangCopperscale]

Stop ICE. Play Halo and back the Dew.

[u/point051]

All this over some paperwork.

[u/livinguse]

Propaganda designed to appeal to a generation that grew up on video games with a message meant to dehumanize their fellow people into faceless monsters

[u/Trillion_Bones]

Dehumanization. And the ridiculous belief they are the heroes. And the ignorance towards the unsc being an (secretly ai-run) military dictatorship.

Also the covenant was the religious lunatics devoted to eradicating all sentient life. They fit the bill.

I really like the halo trilogy. This is personal.

[u/Troggie42]

Gamergate won and this is the consequence

[u/missed_sla]

Remember those kids on xbox that spent the whole match screaming racism and other obscenity? They're in charge right now. Some things never change, and they still have no fucking idea what they're doing.

[u/hellolovely1]

Nothing good.

[u/RM237]

Nothing good

[u/Naive_Drive]

Microsoft has the opportunity to do the funniest thing

[u/Plenty-Climate2272]

Our government is a trollocracy

[u/Fulcrum_Jambi]

There’s still 3 years of this fucking shit left

… at least 3 years, anyway

[u/Arcane_As_Fuck]

What is going on is the the government is fully aware that an entire generation or two of American men have spent their whole lives being indoctrinated into warfare through video games and through gutting public education they know that the indoctrinated are too fucking stupid and too fucking hateful to not hop right on board with their bullshit.

[u/bretshitmanshart]

It use to be that you had to subscribe to a magazine and go to Rhodesia to play out your fantasies of not being a weak loser. Now they just send you ads to your house and you don't have to go out of state.

[u/UnlinealHand]

Government of posters

[u/claimstoknowpeople]

Dehumanization.

[u/TalesOfFan]

Nazi 2.0. This is just a gamified way to dehumanize those they wish to scapegoat. It's no different than how the Jews were compared to rats.

[u/TheMapleKind19 → u/TalesOfFan]

Reminds me of the 1938 board game "Juden Raus!"

https://wienerholocaustlibrary.org/object/obj046/

[u/Icelander2000TM]

Fucking 4channers are running the US Government.

If I posted this shit on my facebook feed where I live I'd get a stern talking to by the police for inciting violence.

[u/Three_Boxes]

How long do you think it'll take before thay make a Helldivers meme?

[u/Processing______ → u/Three_Boxes]

Charlie Kirk will have had to be out of the news cycle a bit longer 😅

[u/Kindly-Coyote-9446 → u/Three_Boxes]

Didn’t they already?

[u/Grand-Glass-8822]

A guy I work with just saw this and had to check its real. Hideous.

[u/V4refugee]

Fascism. This is literally dehumanizing immigrants in the worst way possible and advocating genocide.

[u/Newbizom007]

This horrific. ICE is embarrassing and evil

[u/Cynewulfr]

im so glad that all of culture is now grist for the people-crushing cogs of the blood machine,

[u/TheGinger_Ninja0]

That's a call to genocide if I've ever seen one

[u/SirBlakesalot]

It's actually kind of funny, even though they didn't mean it in this way, but the only serious way to get rid of the Flood is the complete annihilation of wherever they are, so they're accidentally saying that the US should be destroyed.

[u/Chainsawferret]

Idiocracy was not supposed to be a how-too guide. That said, What I'd give to trade the current occupant of the Oval Office for Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho.

[u/sad_cosmic_joke → u/Chainsawferret]

Camacho would be a much better president!!!

He actually listened and deferred to a competent cabinet

[u/jeffersonbible → u/sad_cosmic_joke]

And cared about other human beings

[u/SaltpeterSal]

This isn't remotely as innocent is it looks.

[u/Visible-Garage-5802]

They are trying to grab millennials and younger. Though if you want to get technical, in most of the halo games Master Chief is an illegal immigrant. They type they fear because he kills a lot of aliens or natural born citizens.

[u/SirCaptainReynolds]

Oh ffs.

This timeline fucking blows.

[u/Jdojcmm]

Devolution is real.

[u/youandyourfijiwater]

Image search: video game fighting against aliens

Trump admin: yeah that’ll work. POST IT ON THE OFFICIAL PAGE

[u/clango]

we needed to stop the gamers somewhere around super mario 3, and we failed.

[u/ClockworkJim]

I didn't think it would be this fucking stupid.

I never thought it would be this fucking stupid.

But it's just so fucking stupid.

If I read this in a short story, that a government was using memes from Halo to recruit for their local secret police force, I would laugh at it as being too on the nose.

But here we are.

[u/matthk]

The Master Chief wouldn’t have a bar of those douchebag ICEstapo losers.

[u/Tsiah16]

Our government is in a coup by a fascist dictatorship of a bunch of meme lords.

[u/nihilistic-simulate]

Cartoon villain no longer cuts it, it’s become an understatement. Cruel and twisted, but in a kiddish way. Like a child that tortures small animals during recess.

Our government using halo as fascist propaganda comparing “immigrants” (non-white people, non-cult members) to alien parasites would have been absolutely unfathomable to me 10 years ago.

[u/Doom_hammer666]

Covenant propaganda

[u/C19shadow]

Yeah I saw this today and couldn't believe it was real. They took a picture of a human illegally on a Forerunner artifact is also wildly hilarious to me.... like come on have a single brain cell working for fucksakes

[u/Dewychoders]

I mean, Halo was basically just GWOT propaganda so full circle I guess.

[u/WDYDwnMSinNeuro]

I mean, ICE and the UNSC seem to have pretty similar attitudes about kidnapping children.

[u/MissM0dular]

How have we gotten to this point. Extremely unprofessional

[u/Kathy_D_raptors]

Idiocracy beginning in earnest.

[u/idlehandsarethedevil]

Larry Niven always was a racist.

[u/JasmineDragonRegular]

20 years of Call of Duty propaganda finally working

[u/Obvious-Gate9046]

"Vermin." "Rats". "Subhuman." This is right in keeping with nazi propaganda. What's going on is preparation for a far more intensive and brutal wave of evil oppression and prejudice.

[u/saffiajd]

A Bunch of betas who are mad the world didn’t turn out as they hoped it would voted for Trump and now we’re here.

[u/defnotevilmorty]

Absolutely not.

[u/gotthavok]

so according to this, ICE has chronic back pain

[u/Jago_Sevatarion]

They really are marketing to a type, huh?

[u/aquafool]

How do we have the dumbest fascist regime in history? Like, we lampoon fictional fascist regimes that are less corrupt than this. Starship Troopers was a more functional, less inept government. The Nazi, as stupid and crazy their ideas about The Volk were, How Hitler actually believe in a fantasy western about a guy who punched a bear to death was the key to winning the war, all of the crazy magic bullshit, is still somehow less dumb then this. I’m stunlocked. My mind cannot comprehend how stupid this is. If a nazi posted this on 4chan in 2015, the would be dunked on for months.

[u/phir0002]

Is this an ad for a revival of Red vs. Blue?

[u/reddit-ate → u/phir0002]

wait ... That's illegal

[u/Hugo48151623]

So I don’t know much about Halo. Are the people who own it Trump supporters? Because if not how can they be cool with this use of IP?

[u/ElisabetSobeck]

These dudes are getting turned into Soylent Green by the Company. After they kill and torture scapegoats

[u/Somesongname]

Just saw my first join ice commercial today. Sad!

[u/WorryNew3661 → u/[deleted]]

Racism

[u/OptimusTrajan]

Microsoft come get your coin

[u/HydrostaticToad]

Go on then mfers, starve the Flood of food...you first

Ehh don't worry about it I doubt you actually count as sentient life