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
    11·
    22 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·
      22 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·
        22 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·
          22 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·
            9 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.

            • T00l_shed@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              8 hours ago

              The Soviets self-governed for the length of the Cold War

              Except for the leaders of the party? How do you define self governing?

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

              Sure there were some monsters in the Union army, but they were fighting slavers, so I don’t really care for their opinion. Nor should you

              • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1·
                8 hours ago

                Except for the leaders of the party?

                You mean the survivors of the Holocaust and resistance movement heroes that liberated their nations from brutal occupation?

                Sure there were some monsters in the Union army

                Okay buddy. Glad to know where you stand

                • T00l_shed@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  1·
                  8 hours ago

                  You mean the survivors of the Holocaust and resistance movement heroes that liberated their nations from brutal occupation

                  Your original premise was that there was freedom without being ruled over, I was saying that was bullshit.

                  Okay buddy. Glad to know where you stand

                  Anti slavery? Yeah happy to be anti slavery haha. I’m glad to know where you stand