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

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    23 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.

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

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

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        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.

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          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

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    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.

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      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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        It wouldn’t surprise me if they have an island of clones to get over that problem.

        You can’t get past the old brain problem though so Donny’s shit out of luck.

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          Good luck. Also your brain and vascular system will be huge bottle necks that can’t be replaced. Most people don’t realize it, but as people age, their veins and arteries begin to weaken\deteriorate to different extents depending on their overall health.

          If you had an 80 year with CAD, and literally swapped out every organ you could, they would probably have an aneurysm and die within a few months. It would be like taking an old garden hose with dry rot and then pumping 5000gallons per minute through it when it’s only rated for 50 gpm to begin with

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      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.

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        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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          I hope we gain more control over our immune systems in the coming years. They protect us, but they can also kill us. I have people in my family with life threatening allergies, and gosh it would be amazing if we could just get our bodies to accept a transplanted organ that is literally keeping them alive.

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      Are they hoping for Jupiter, or Repo the Genetic Opera? Because this isn’t even close to Gattaca.

      Either way, this has been a Science Fiction Movie.

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    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.

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        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.

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          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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      Traumatic surgery, sure.

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

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        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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        They’re dictators and wealthy psychopaths.

        They don’t need people to donate, they’ll simply take what they want, like they’ve always done.

        They’ll just live in a bubble. They practically already do, for their own safety, because almost every person on the planet wants them dead, most with good reason (some just want to take their place).

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      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.

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      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.

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    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.