The Department of Homeland Security is recruiting with a new trope, same as the old trope.
I was never into Halo, but my sons were avid players. I just wasn’t good enough to join in, but I remember the Flood from the many battles waged into the wee hours of the night in my basement. I had to look them up to remind myself of what the Flood were.
The Flood, designated as LF.Xx.3273 by the Forerunners (Latin Inferi redivivus meaning “the dead reincarnated”) and referred to as the Parasite and the infection by the Covenant, is a species of highly virulent parasitic organisms that reproduce and grow by consuming sentient lifeforms of sufficient biomass and cognitive capability. The Flood was responsible for consuming most of the sentient lifeforms in the galaxy – including the vast majority of Forerunners – during the Forerunner-Flood war in ancient past, prompting the activation of the galaxy-sterilizing Halo Array in 97,445 BCE.
Cool. Comparing immigrants to virulent parasitic organisms and threatening to literally destroy them. This is exactly what Julius Streicher would do if he were reincarnated today and was trying to enlist young men to his cause.
The Flood do look like they’d make excellent farm laborers, but they don’t resemble the Central and South American people I know.
Way to make Larry Niven’s Ringworld look absurdly too small ICE fascists..
Oh and the Flood** still manage to look better than Trump does. /Catty mode.*
Halo? Far as I know that’s a safety feature in F1 cars. Anyhow..
.* Unfair to felines but anyhow..
.** Don’t look that liquid~ish to me..
Microsoft is silent as Trump co-opts Halo — but these Halo developers aren’t.
From Wikipedia:
“After the war, Streicher was convicted of crimes against humanity during the Nuremberg trials. Specifically, he was found to have continued his vitriolic antisemitic propaganda when he was well aware that Jews were being murdered. For this, he was executed by hanging. Streicher was the first member of the Nazi regime held accountable for inciting genocide by the Nuremberg Tribunal.”
O, that the same fate would befall the perpetrator of ICE.
You would think that Nazi-adjacent appeals to video game players would fall flat on their fact, given that Nazis are one of the few uncomplicated video game baddies left. If you’re shooting things with reckless abandon and no moral qualms it pretty much has to be orcs, zombies or Nazis, or some variant thereon.
Then again, when you staff your administration entirely with orcs, zombies and Nazis, or some variant thereon (Stephen Miller is definitely all three), you probably won’t realise this.
The Onion just had a message on a video saying that Stephen Miller was uninjured after an attempted staking.
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Never underedtimste the fascist’s desire to appropriate anti-right-wing art and culture and try to twist and rewrite it to suit their purposes.
Just yesterday, I read a post on a FB Babylon 5 fan page that said how the show’s depiction of the rise of of fascism in the Earth Alliance eerily parody’s current events. The majority of the comments were from MAGA chuds claiming that it was Biden and the Democrats who filled the role of President Clark and his allies while Trump and MAGA were the equivalent of Sheridan an the Army of Light.
Fascist can never create, they can only steal while claiming it was theirs all along.
Edit: …eerily paralleled…