Great. The Trump thugocracy is exchanging memes with some fascist messaging with GameStop's MAGA CEO.

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This is too complicated to begin to explain in a short excerpt. See this Gizmodo article, which isn't paywalled:

https://gizmodo.com/white-house-goes-full-gamer-tries-and-fails-to-pump-meme-stock-2000678016

I guess I will quote a few paragraphs anyway.

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The CEO of GameStop, Ryan Cohen, is a big fan of the president. After the 2024 presidential election, he tweeted “Trump has now won 3 elections in a row,” in a reference to the false claim that Trump won the 2020 election against Joe Biden.

By Monday, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security had created its own meme image, which took things even further. The agency tweeted a manipulated image from Halo along with the caption “Finishing this fight.” But the text on the image was even more extreme. It read, “Destroy the Flood,” a reference to the primary alien life forms fought by the good guys in Halo.

The Flood is a parasitic alien species that can infect other hosts. And it’s not hard to see what DHS is implying by the call to destroy the flood. DHS even includes a call to join ICE, one of the agencies that’s deployed masked goons to U.S. streets in an effort to purge immigrants, especially non-white people.

404 Media reporter Matthew Gault talked about the bizarre posts on Jordan Uhl’s podcast The Insurgents, noting that comparing an out-group to insects or to monsters is what fascists do.

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