"Early Monday morning, the official DHS X account - already infamous for its cruel, brain-rotting posting history - shared an image of Xbox's iconic mascot, Master Chief, standing on a Warthog with the Halo ring world in the background. The caption read, "Finishing this fight," a nod to the final line of Halo 2 and the marketing tagline for Halo 3. The image itself included the phrase "Destroy the Flood," alongside a link to an ICE recruitment page."
"Xbox can't seem to stay out of the news lately, with the announcement that Halo: Combat Evolved is coming to PlayStation next year and, in response, a detente called in the console wars. Things took a darker turn on Sunday night when President Trump launched into an AI slop meme war with GameStop that has now spiraled into the Department of Homeland Security using Halo imagery to compare undocumented immigrants to parasitic aliens."
Xbox recently announced Halo: Combat Evolved for PlayStation, prompting a temporary detente in the console wars. A separate online spat involving President Trump and GameStop escalated into a meme exchange that intersected with federal social media activity. The Department of Homeland Security's official X account posted an image of Master Chief with the caption "Finishing this fight" and the phrase "Destroy the Flood," linking to an ICE recruitment page. The post equated the Flood — Halo's parasitic alien antagonists — with undocumented immigrants. ICE previously co-opted video-game imagery for recruitment, including a recent Pokemon-themed post, illustrating a pattern of gaming-based recruitment messaging.
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