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What do warmongers and strongmen chat about? Living forever, of course.

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[-] favoredponcho@lemmy.zip 2 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

This sounds like someone who doesn’t know about organ transplants. I learned about lung transplants recently and about half of people die within 5 years of getting one. Those who make it longer often having major issues like popcorn lung that force them to live limited lives due to the complications. They also require lots of medications to make your body not reject them. Those meds can be difficult to actually take if you also have other issues that require different courses of medication like infection or cancer.

[-] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 9 points 1 day ago

Biological or effective immortality would be the worst fucking technology for humans to discover right now.

[-] nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 23 hours ago

if I can still jerk off I'm down

[-] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 1 points 19 hours ago

Genital subscription is premium and coming is premium+ 😞 I'm sorry

[-] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

I would like both of them to get brain transplants and see if they survive

[-] misteloct@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 1 day ago

I fully support Putin's desire to live forever. Let's encourage him and all other billionaires to start with a young brain transplant.

[-] LittleBorat3@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

It won't help Putin. Organs don't help when you are falling out of a window

[-] webp@mander.xyz 10 points 1 day ago

In Russia, heart surgeon, #1!

[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 24 points 1 day ago

Sure, cuz old sick people bounce right back easily from complex major surgeries like transplants.

I keep hearing people make this argument. This seems to presume that these insane blood thirsty dictators discussing immortality, are also rational individuals who wouldn't be willing to stockpile organs first, then die trying.

https://thediplomat.com/2025/07/xinjiangs-organ-transplant-expansion-sparks-alarm-over-uyghur-forced-organ-harvesting/

[-] CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world 2 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

I look forward to Putin dying in agony as his body finally rejects itself entierly due to numerous transplants compounded with horrific co-infections due to all the imuno supressants he'd have to be after going throguh that many transplants. Guy is basically asking to be eaten alive by his own immune system.

[-] AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 2 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Somebody else mentioned that they thought they were probably talking about growing organs targeted to match DNA, but then I remembered this article I saw earlier this summer.

https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/forced-organ-harvesting-03202024133851.html

I brushed it off bc of who was giving the testimony, but honestly this comment from Putin makes me question if there is some truth to that. If you were able to find a match with genetic similarities to yourself, it would decrease the chance of the organ being rejected. Idk could be just a random coincidence.

The accusations against China using re-education camps to harvest organs closely matched to the recipient aren't limited to only these kinds of organizations though. There was also this article released this past summer

https://thediplomat.com/2025/07/xinjiangs-organ-transplant-expansion-sparks-alarm-over-uyghur-forced-organ-harvesting/

“This massive expansion in Xinjiang – a region already under scrutiny for systematic repression – raises deeply troubling questions about where the organs will come from,” said Wendy Rogers, Distinguished Professor of Clinical Ethics and Chair of the International Advisory Board of the International Coalition to End Transplant Abuse in China (ETAC). “There is simply no justification for such growth in transplant capacity given the region’s official organ donation rate, which is far below the national average.”

This suggestion becomes even more concerning when considering the extensive surveillance and repression that Uyghurs face in the region. Detainees in the many internment camps in Xinjiang have reported being subjected to forced blood tests, ultrasounds, and organ-focused medical scans. These procedures align with organ compatibility testing, raising fears that Uyghurs are being prepped for organ harvesting while in detention.

Not to be confused with the Arizona Wendy Rogers who she unfortunately shares her name with, this lady is an Australian professor at Macquarie and bioethicist. She's been doing human rights work and publishing about this stuff for a long time

https://iabioethics.world/2022%3A-wendy-rogers

The IAB recognized Wendy Rogers, Professor of Clinical Ethics at Macquarie University, Australia for her role in the registered Australian charity, International Coalition to End Transplant Abuse In China (ETAC). Rogers serves as ETAC’s Director and chairs its International Advisory Committee. In that capacity, Rogers raised public, professional, and governmental awareness of forced organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience in China

https://researchers.mq.edu.au/en/persons/wendy-rogers

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago

May the pursuit of immortality go as well for him as it did for Qin Shi Huang.

[-] reksas@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 day ago

how did it go for that guy?

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

His tomb is so toxic archeologists can't risk opening it. Turns out mercury is really cool but not the secret to immortality.

[-] rozodru@piefed.social 25 points 2 days ago

yeah this isn't WH 40K. You can't make a "Primaris Putin" and "continuous organ transplants" are only going to top you out at a few extra years, maybe, unless this fucker has somehow struck a deal with Nurgle or Khorne or some other Warp entity.

Now if his flesh starts bubbling and his intestines are suddenly on the outside of his body and he grows a maw on his shoulder? yeah then I'd start worrying.

[-] capt_wolf@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

Has anyone seen his shoulders lately? It's been a long time since that shirtless pic of him riding a horse...

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[-] MummifiedClient5000@feddit.dk 147 points 2 days ago

No it isn't. All this microphone leak tells us is that these leaders are very far away from reality.

[-] roguetrick@lemmy.world 72 points 2 days ago

Man inadvertently broadcasts his insecurities and how he copes.

[-] Protoknuckles@lemmy.world 47 points 2 days ago

Yeah, other than the horrific ghoulishness of it all, organ failure after transplant and rejection is still relatively high, and you have to be on medicine to prevent that rejection your entire life. You're going down Putin old boy.

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[-] scarabic@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago

I hope to never have to experience one organ transplant. They are morons if they think this is an elective option you’d want to do multiple times. Every single time is a threat to your life.

[-] EtherWhack@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago

And life-long immunosuppressants with the constant mortal fear of a cough or runny nose. Sepsis is no joke and can easily develop in a matter of hours if you don't have a healthy immune system.

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[-] frostysauce@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

It tells us they're fucking morons. So nothing new.

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[-] Taleya@aussie.zone 54 points 2 days ago

Put yourself through traumatic surgery and then load yourself up with immune suppressants in a world that's gonna develop more and more pandemics.

...do it. Do it do it do it.

[-] ms_lane@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago

Personally, I crave the strength and certainty of steel.

[-] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

One day the crude biomass you call "the temple" will wither, and you will beg my kind to save you.

But I am already saved, for the Machine is immortal.

[-] sadTruth@lemmy.hogru.ch 3 points 1 day ago
There is no truth in flesh, only betrayal.
There is no strength in flesh, only weakness.
There is no constancy in flesh, only decay.
There is no certainty in flesh but death.
--Credo Omnissiah

The Automaticus

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[-] humorlessrepost@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Traumatic surgery, sure.

But I assume the plan is to build replacement organs with your own dna, not transplants from donors.

Yeesh I didn't even think about this, but that might explain this accusation. I guess choosing from a catalogue of harvested organs to select the closest match would also decrease the need for immuno suppressants. Experts: China is sequencing Uyghur DNA for organ harvesting

Kinda makes you wonder if that's another reason they want increased genetic homogeneity and increased birthrates. Also makes me think of those catalogues of Ukrainian children Russia was offering for adoptions.

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[-] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 days ago

Oh boy, perpetually recovering from surgery at an advanced age!

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[-] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Our one saving grace in this post truth, post experts aren't Johnny with a 4 chan account world, is that these dictators are so fucking stupid. Let them think they could have multiple organs from multiple "donors". Sad part is we might lose a doctor or two when the bad hit outside the park, was dropped.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I've just had some -ectomies and ooooof that's gonna do him in at his age. It went well when I was young and I still barely survived.

[-] TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 2 days ago

I hope he gets a brain transplant soon. He really needs one.

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[-] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Let us agree now: If 50% of your organs were transplanted within the past 18 years that is not a loophole that exempts you from anti pedophelia laws.

[-] missfrizzle@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 day ago

sadly they won't get a brain transplant.

[-] Marshezezz 43 points 2 days ago

“Drink the blood of children and live forever!!!!!”

[-] misteloct@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago

Actually rich people do this, it's called Young Blood Transfusion.

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[-] FardyCakes@lemmy.world 39 points 2 days ago

Organ transplants can’t stop these

[-] Fuckfuckmyfuckingass@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago

Just gotta convince 'em it 's the 1st step in a head transplant.

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[-] eronth@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Hey man, go for it.

[-] NewPerspective@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago

Start with the brain

[-] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

So in other words, "immortality" until the brain cancer is inoperable.

Seems deeply unlikely to work. The body only has so much capacity to heal from surgery, and that capacity diminishes with age, so eventually your surgeries would become too close together and you wouldn't ever fully heal. At that point you might end up happier as a brain in a jar.

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Yeah organ transplants are miraculous in the way medicine is miraculous not in the way religion is.

Medical miracles have limits and drawbacks. Organ transplants save lives and drastically improve quality of life, but it's compared to a baseline of needing a new organ. Kidney recipients would much rather deal with anti rejection meds than dialysis. Heart recipients' alternative is to die slowly.

Many rich people seem to think that shit like this will just replace their font of yang or something. They can't accept that someday all that will remain of them is dust and consequences.

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[-] blattrules@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

If it does happen, it’s only going to be for the absolute worst people in the world…fortunately, they still won’t be immune to guillotines.

[-] hperrin@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 days ago

I swear, this time we really have found the fountain of youth!

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