Presidents Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin have been caught on a hot mic talking about the potential of medicine to extend human life spans and "perhaps even achieve immortality".

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A live-stream broadcast of China’s military parade has captured Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin discussing biotechnology’s potential to extend life.

An interpreter translating Mr Putin can be heard saying in Mandarin that human organ transplants could let “us live younger and younger, and perhaps even achieve immortality”.

Mr Xi responded that it may be possible for people to live to 150 years this century.

  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    23 hours ago

    It is weird to point to a country that’s actively engaged in a holocaust and compare it to one that has eliminated poverty and boosted life expectancy by decades. One is slaughtering hundreds of thousands and the other is dramatically improving the lives of hundreds of millions.

      • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
        14·
        22 hours ago

        I noted a real well-documented instance of organ harvesting, yes. I wasn’t just farting out speculations because I hate the country’s politics.

        • StarMerchant938@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          22 hours ago

          Look let’s ease of the Xi Jinping dicksucking. The CCP is an objectively oppressive regime with a terrifying human rights track record. All the tankie whataboutism in the world isn’t going to change that.

          • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
            13·
            22 hours ago

            It is difficult for me to imagine what “personal liberty” is enjoyed by an unemployed person, who goes about hungry, and cannot find employment. Real liberty can exist only where exploitation has been abolished, where there is no oppression of some by others, where there is no unemployment and poverty, where a man is not haunted by the fear of being tomorrow deprived of work, of home and of bread. Only in such a society is real, and not paper, personal and every other liberty possible.

            • T00l_shed@lemmy.worldEnglish
              4·
              22 hours ago

              Real liberty can exist only where exploitation has been abolished, where there is no oppression of some by others, where there is no unemployment and poverty, where a man is not haunted by the fear of being tomorrow deprived of work, of home and of bread. Only in such a society is real, and not paper, personal and every other liberty possible.

              Literally no where is like this

                  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
                    11·
                    20 hours ago

                    In Eastern Europe, Russia, China, Mongolia, North Korea, and Cuba, revolutionary communism created a life for the mass of people that was far better than the wretched existence they had endured under feudal lords, military bosses, foreign colonizers, and Western capitalists. The end result was a dramatic improvement in living conditions for hundreds of millions of people on a scale never before or since witnessed in history.

                    ~ Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism