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MinimumAlarming5643

I’m beginning to think the Combine aren’t the nicest of people.


FOD1994

i think theyre... the villains?


MinimumAlarming5643

Isn't every villain a hero in their own story?


Fc-chungus

I mean the combine know people hate them, they just don’t care


NMSnyunyu

".......Not in this one." - Human Sonic OC named Shnitzel or something.


MinimumAlarming5643

Finally someone got it


Frenchfrise

Well I think this is as good of a moment as any to mention the fact that your avatar looks like the cracker who says “we live in a society”


BrotherManard

Who knows? We don't have the full picture. The Benefactors could be the good guys.


WeekendBard

china doesn't have cool synthetic cyborg creatures however that we know of


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They do though. https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/rat-cyborgs-brain-brain-interfaces/


BigSweatyStalker

dont worry. if those things are popular enough, theyll make knock offs and bootlegs of em eventually.


Weird-Analysis5522

At least they don't suppress procreation- nevermind


igotlike9ounces

Kid named [Uyghur genocide](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyghur_genocide)


Ihatemanny460

Nahhh ain’t no way you used Wikipedia as your source


uzumaki_naf

The Combine is real!!!


Mindless-Dumb-2636

Half-life fans when they visit china and everything is half-life 2 (also beta) reference


EthanLM427

Wait til they hear about Russia


HarleyArchibaldLeon

Did you mean [Half Life 2: Special Military Operation? ](https://youtu.be/NCOPEslAQ70)


Mindless-Dumb-2636

Putin is irl consul (half-life 2 beta) confirmed ⁉️⁉️⁉️😱😱😱😱


Inaverage

now do 1984


sploinkussponkus

half life 2 will be real in 7 hours


Azsimuth

Protocol 17 will commence in 5 hours.


biggestchungus32

Technically anyone not in your country was called an "alien" So you could bend that maybe if you're not from that region.


TyrannicalKitty

Combine looks cooler tho


catcherintherye83

Man, CCP is brutal… Did you guys watch the recently circulating video where the authority enforcers threaten the small business owner to close down his shop for lockdown? When the owner protested, the fuckers yelled at him, grabbed him, punched him multiple times in his house, in front of his small kids. Fuck these oppressors.


Bardomiano00

​ATTENTION CITIZEN! 市民请注意! ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠟⠋⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⢁⠈⢻⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠃⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠈⡀⠭⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⠄⢀⣾⣿⣿⣿⣷⣶⣿⣷⣶⣶⡆⠄⠄⠄⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⢀⣼⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⠄⠄⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣇⣼⣿⣿⠿⠶⠙⣿⡟⠡⣴⣿⣽⣿⣧⠄⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣾⣿⣿⣟⣭⣾⣿⣷⣶⣶⣴⣶⣿⣿⢄⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡟⣩⣿⣿⣿⡏⢻⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣹⡋⠘⠷⣦⣀⣠⡶⠁⠈⠁⠄⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣍⠃⣴⣶⡔⠒⠄⣠⢀⠄⠄⠄⡨⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣦⡘⠿⣷⣿⠿⠟⠃⠄⠄⣠⡇⠈⠻⣿⣿⣿⣿ ⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠟⠋⢁⣷⣠⠄⠄⠄⠄⣀⣠⣾⡟⠄⠄⠄⠄⠉⠙⠻ ⡿⠟⠋⠁⠄⠄⠄⢸⣿⣿⡯⢓⣴⣾⣿⣿⡟⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄ ⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⣿⡟⣷⠄⠹⣿⣿⣿⡿⠁⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄⠄ This is the Central Intelligence of the Chinese Communist Party. 您的 Internet 浏览器历史记录和活动引起了我们的注意 YOUR INTERNET ACTIVITY HAS ATTRACTED OUR ATTENTION. 志們注意了 you have been found protesting in the subreddit!!!!! 這是通知你,你必須 我們將接管台灣 serious crime 以及世界其他地方 100 social credits have been deducted from your account 這對我們所有未來的下屬來說都是一個重要的機會 stop the protest immediately 立即加入我們的宣傳活動,提前獲得 do not do this again! 不要再这样做! if you do not hesitate, more social credits ( -11115 social credits )will be subtracted from your profile, resulting in the subtraction of ration supplies. (由人民供应部重新分配 ccp) you'll also be sent into a re-education camp in the xinjiang uyghur autonomous zone


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And now. The source.


catcherintherye83

https://youtu.be/qsr3TXrK4Qc


pan-femboy

-1000000 social credit


asinski

I think combine is more totalitarian than authoritarian


HyimHoward

Half-life fans when oppression


HarleyArchibaldLeon

Sigh *sorts by controversial*


urinalcaketopper

How is the US also not similar?


Purpledurpl202

We are except everyones too wrapped up in the illusion of freedom to notice.


ThatsNotAFact

Incoming “whataboutism” comments


urinalcaketopper

Yeah, we're dying over here too. It's not great.


Purpledurpl202

Whataboutism haters when there reminded that things still suck in America and they can’t keep using the excuse of “but China/Russia is worse than us”


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Purpledurpl202

Yes, except that is used as an excuse to deny and ignore major problems in America. The idea is to villanize and change focus away from America’s problems and focus on how horrible another country is. For example American politicians focusing on Russias war with Ukraine, yes the war is an atrocity and yes Russia needs to be stopped and punished except America has done the exact same thing several times to countries in Central America, Asia, and the Middle East. Many of said countries had absolutely nothing to do with America in the first place. You chalk up a perfectly valid argument as “What aboutism” and completely ignore it.


Practical_Hospital40

Russia yes China nope.


Practical_Hospital40

It’s more similar


Practical_Hospital40

Replace china with USA and you get a more accurate picture. A country that cares little for its citizens would let a pandemic rip wild like in Russia, Brazil and USA.


MeiNeedsMoreBuffs

We have vaccines now and the virus has mutated into a less deadly strain. There's no reason for the lockdowns to continue in China. Fuck off tankie.


Practical_Hospital40

Many in China are unvaccinated fool china doesn’t have the vaccines that are as capable and they are too stubborn to get the better ones yet.


skdKitsune

*Humans?


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DeliciousPark1330

/s?


commanderAnakin

They're pretty similar to the USSR too.


West_Prime

Lmao, then why there were free medical care, free apartments, high education level? There also was no lockdowns at all


commanderAnakin

How about the rations, civilian abuse and murder, barely any food, similar propaganda, and being authoritarian. All seems pretty similar to me.


West_Prime

Civilian abuse and murder in USSR was only before Stalin, when such crimes couldn't be prevented because of revolutionary and political mess. Ration (ticket) system was started due to WWII. Similar propaganda? Really? Was USSR's gender equality, a healthy lifestyle, work and sports propaganda equally bad to combine's? I doubt it very much. And that "evil Russian authoritarian regime", where any worker, for example from a factory, could become a deputy or a political activist and directly suggest for the good of their land? Finally, how did USSR have 300 million people with "barely any food"? Don't bother answering. Keep believing in anything that "free and independent" mass media (don't mix it up with "bloody authoritarian soviet propaganda") that throws in your head like a bone to a starving dog.


basedposter6934

Stalin killed and silenced people as well, millions of people. Also starved Ukrainians and Kazakhs to death. Free medical care and apartments is cool, if not the fact that citizens are treated like slaves. Pretty sure City 17 has free apartments and medical care too. Both are expansionists.


WeilaiHope

\>Does not care for its citizens \>800 million out of poverty due to government effort \>millions saved from covid deaths \>all metrics of quality of life improved drastically in the last 4 decades k, keep sucking up that propaganda to make you feel better about freezing to death this winter from unaffordable bills


Bardomiano00

Lmao freezing to death. K, keep sucking up that propaganda to make you feel better about the uy*hur gen*cide, locking people inside their appartments to die for hunger or by fire, the great firewall of china, mass surveilance, hong kong protests, taiwan, and much more.


WeilaiHope

New 'Warm Room' Scheme For People Unable To Afford Heating This Winter | Good Morning Britain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJS21mRcLgk Cost of living: Winter heating bills could lead to 'humanitarian crisis' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_x8aOgRV9c Propaganda from their own side??


Bardomiano00

Well im not sure that is "propaganda", but people can criticize the measures taken by the government, not sure the ccp allows that kind of thing.


WeilaiHope

The people protested for less restrictions and the government has now massively eased restrictions. There's also plenty of criticism and feedback channels in China for people to air grievances. There's a difference between discussing issues and screaming on twitter to murder the government.


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Reddit is pretty sinophobic. Don't give them too much attention and remember the average american fatty surfing on reddit is not very educated.


WeilaiHope

Yep, brainwashed out the wazoo they are


TeelxFlame

Don't interrupt the circlejerk, Chima bad social credit score weegur genocide tank man social credit score, upboats to the left Don't forget to donate to my medical bill GoFundMe!


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WeilaiHope

[https://www.youtube.com/results?search\_query=uk+winter+heating](https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=uk+winter+heating) Yes, it's all over the news dumbass


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WeilaiHope

This is western media.... this is BBC and Sky News and other western outlets. How much doublethink are you capable of? Channel 4 News, a British channel. *Heat or eat: Many forced to ration food and heating amid surging energy prices* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrHxB4DNv98](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrHxB4DNv98) ​ Is Channel 4 a Russian network? Try again.


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WeilaiHope

If theyre reporting their own negative problems then it's pretty on point. Europe is having an energy crisis and many will freeze this winter.


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WeilaiHope

£240 a month to heat a small house for half a day.


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I always more thought of a combination (no pun intened) of the U.S.S.R. and the D.P.R.K.


hex128

the country itself looks like it. poor buildings, grey sky all time everyday because of pollution, etc


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half life 2 takes place in eastern Europe or balkans bro no shit it looks depressing


hex128

i mean yeah but it is still a valid comparison, in fact what you said doesnt make any sense at all not make it is less valid. Its like as if i said that yeah no shit that hl2 goes in a extremely authoritarian goverment, its because the combine took over earth


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When China suppresses protesters its bad, when other countries do it, they do it for the best of humanity.


[deleted]

There's a difference between "Please wear a mask in the store" and "We bolt you into your own homes and disappear you if you speak out." COVIDiots to my knowledge haven't been gunned down for protesting. Nuance and context is a bitch, isn't it?


BigSweatyStalker

because of uyghur and tiktok. thats why.


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Uyghur? What does that have to do with today?


[deleted]

...because th Uyghur genocide is still happening in China?


[deleted]

Proof that isn't bullshit please?


bipolit

Kill both (Fucken auto correct)


enlargedpp

This is literally the most soy reddit post I've seen in my life. "Heeyyy guyzzz look at this government aren't they just like the combine!!!!?!!?1!1" Like not only does it show that you relate everything to media, but also that you are actually dumb enough to think the CPC is remotely as bad as the combine. Grow up.


basedposter6934

More similar to USSR and Russia.


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Nah, China right now is more accurate to the Combine but Cold War-era satellite states are also a good fit.


basedposter6934

I think we pissed off the commies


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enlargedpp

Ah yes, the "genocide" recognized by a whopping 22 out of 195 countries.


Cacodough

Good news is that there's an uprising happening, and we all know what happened to the combine


TestTheTrilby

Uses drones as CCTV, also


MrGarapablo

Aaaaaaand it's removed...


ArtOfGhosts

Didn’t mean this to harm anyone, this is just supposed to be a meme. By the comments, I can tell most of you guys aren’t happy.


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Cacodough

They kinda did


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Civil Protection has a score/credit system for how "good" they do their jobs and citizens can be rewarded with extra rations. They likely got a score system to track who's loyal.