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Xi and Putin overheard talking about organ transplants and immortality (www.abc.net.au)
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In short:

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.

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[–] -4 points 11 months ago (1 child)

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.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago* (1 child)

    You were the one that brough up the comparison in the first place.

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  • [–] -2 points 11 months ago* (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] -1 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    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

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  • [–] -1 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    It exists. You just won't like where you find it.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Where?

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (1 child)

    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

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago* (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 0 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    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

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    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

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  • [–] 0 points 11 months 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

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