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
    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

            • T00l_shed@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              20 hours ago

              Right, so that is clearly written with such incredible bias. At the end of the day, people in China, Russia, north Korea etc still suffer, no place like the utopia you described exists.

              • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
                11·
                20 hours ago

                people in China, Russia, north Korea etc still suffer

                The sharpest spike in human misery in both Russia and N Korea followed after the Yeltsin coup of the Soviet Parliament in 1993.

                This precipitated a wave of de-industrialization, mass displacement, and famine spanning the USSR. It paved the road to multiple civil wars, invasions, and genocides, not the least of which we’re seeing the modern day.

                Westerners will tell you that these countries were liberated with the collapse of the USSR. They’ll also insist the residents of these countries are subhuman and deserve to die.

                • T00l_shed@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  2·
                  20 hours ago

                  Westerners will tell you that these countries were liberated with the collapse of the USSR. They’ll also insist the residents of these countries are subhuman and deserve to die.

                  Maybe some, but certainly not most, but to say that there was no one ruling over them before yeltsin is silly, fucking Stalin was a monster, krushchev wasn’t great. Mao was a horrible dictator.

                  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
                    1·
                    7 hours ago

                    to say that there was no one ruling over them before yeltsin is silly

                    The Soviets self-governed for the length of the Cold War. A radical departure from Nazi occupation of the 30s/40s or the debt peonage of the interwar period.

                    fucking Stalin was a monster. Mao was a horrible dictator

                    Confederates said the same thing about William T. Sherman and Abraham Lincoln.