Whenever theytry to make Pvt Bonespurs look “manly” it always looks so sad and desperate

They are literally trying to turn Americans into the Covenant tho. Religious warriors.

Where the Trump-as-Master Chief post is merely cringeworthy, the Homeland Security message is flat-out dangerous. Comparing immigrants in the US to a parasitic alien life form that infects and annihilates advanced societies is not deeply offensive, it's also rooted in the worst of human history: As seen in the untermenschen of the Holocaust and "cockroaches" in Rwanda, to name a couple recent examples, dehumanizing the "other" so you can more easily inflict cruelty, injustice, and horrors upon them is hardly a new technique, and the US government's messaging was not subtle.

You might think that using imagery from one of its best known videogames in a call to "destroy" immigrants would prompt Microsoft to action, or at least to express some small modicum of disapproval. For now, at least, you would be wrong: Rather like Nintendo, which eagerly picks copyright fights it knows it can win but kept its mouth tightly zipped when Homeland Security used Pokémon to promote violent immigration raids, a representative told PC Gamer that "Microsoft does not have anything to share on this matter."

Unexpectedly good political commentary from checks notes PC Gamer

Microsoft is a criminal organisation that thrives on corruption (no real action being taken with respect to anti trust proceedings is still relevant today).

Crime isn't only about someone stealing your phone, extracting many billion of dollars via oligopolistic methods of limiting competition and leaving people with no other option than to use their products (irrespective of price or feature considerations) is also criminal activity.

They are not going to fight the US administratorion on this.

How many Microsoft executives are on the Epstein files?

... Did they not realize that the UNSC is an authoritarian fascist organization, and the Spartan program was originally aimed at fighting "rebels" who wanted to have control over the planets they lived on?

Literally the MC was kidnapped and experimented on to become a killing machine for the military junta for the express purpose of murdering colonists. No pay, no benefits, no end of contract.

I hate this fucking timeline.

I used to be a Halo fan, Microsoft ruined it.

I used to want to travel to the US, MAGA ruined it.

I used to have ambition for the future, a bunch of crusty old fucks ruined it.

I used to enjoy life. This incessant hatred and uglyness ruined it.

Microsoft declines to comment

More like 'Microsoft approves of this imagery'

Silence is consent, be it from approval or cowardice, the outcome is the same.

Microsoft are a bunch of pussies also release the Epstein files!

Microsoft declined to comment

Microsoft was completely OK with this

...So you separate children from their parents at the age of six and abuse them? Yeah, that sounds pretty accurate.

It's piss colored, and that makes it accurate.

The current government strategy of illegal use of copyrighted materials, often with the full understanding that the artist/IP owners will not consent to it should really have a harsher punishment to it. The DHS social media pages in particular keep using songs without artist permission because they know it will be taken down but by that point it doesn’t matter and they just steal another song. Given that the use of these songs implies tacit approval from the artist, this should absolutely count as the rights of the artists to free speech are being infringed upon.

Lmao that fat fuck could not fit in that suit.

Homelander-ass post

Draft dodger say what?

Also, that flag would only have been valid for a week in 1889.

I would threaten to not buy any more Halo games but I haven't bought one in like a decade so I recognize there's not much bite there.

Lawsuit incoming....?

It's another form of kissing the ring. They know it's bad for business but there's the implied threat that if they retaliate the FCC will grind the company to a hault.

So it's a way of reminding them of their loyalty and extending the president's influence beyond it's legal limits, very common tactic during the 1940's of a particular country's history.

Master Queef

The CEO of Microsoft is deep throating Trump regularly. The company won't do anything.

I'm sure if Satya Nadal were to become a target of ICE he'd have a comment.

Bootlicking cowards.

Whenever you think the Turd Reich can't get more stupid and ridiculous they actually go and do it.