Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping were caught on a hot mic discussing organ transplants and immortality at the military parade in Beijing on Wednesday.
The two leaders were captured on the stream as they walked with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at Tiananmen Square, with the Russian translator saying: “Biotechnology is continuously developing,” according to Reuters.
“Human organs can be continuously transplanted. The longer you live, the younger you become, and (you can) even achieve immortality,” the translator added.
Haha what’s next the wealthy are going to start harvesting our organs?
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God dammit.
This is what happens to a motherfucker when anyone who tells you you’re talking crazy falls out a window.
Imagine being his translator though. Maybe you used to believe in him. Maybe you even buy into the shit he’s saying. But you still know, deep down, that you work for an insane man who will kill you as soon as he realises you think he’s insane.
As I understand it, the nihilistic realization that it’s all a bunch of insane bullshit and there is no reason to believe in anybody or anything, comes quite early in the Russian system. I imagine the translator takes some comfort in the idea that Putin is just a crazy old man at the end of the day. It probably relieves him from some feelings about his own sins whatever they may be, because nothing matters.
That tracks. Apathy is death, they say.