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WE CANNOT LET CHINA CURE CANCER. (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 month ago by Yuritopiaposadism@hexbear.net to c/sino@hexbear.net

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[–] abc@hexbear.net 87 points 1 month ago (4 children)

They're so close to curing T1 diabetes and I'm rooting for them. If I live to see the insulin/diabetes medical device manufacturers go bankrupt I may achieve nirvana

[–] invo_rt@hexbear.net 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

manifesting this

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[–] miz@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

from what I remember they have already cured T1 and T2 in trials, they have patients with both that are off insulin after gene therapies

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[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 78 points 1 month ago (4 children)

It would be so much fun watching western media try to spin curing cancer as an evil communist plot though.

[–] TrustedFeline@hexbear.net 60 points 1 month ago

Go ahead and get your commie jab! I'm gonna cure my cancer with ivermectin and benzene

[–] vovchik_ilich@hexbear.net 33 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We've literally seen this with COVID haven't we?

[–] ElChapoDeChapo@hexbear.net 32 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah the Chinese and Russian vaccines came out like a year ahead of the US ones and the media just fearmongered about them not being safe

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 31 points 1 month ago

Reminder that, [Reuters]Pentagon ran secret anti-vax campaign to undermine China during pandemic

[–] alexei_1917@hexbear.net 27 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Whenever "The Commies" beat America to a medical breakthrough, it's indeed very fun to watch the Red Scare nonsense spewed by Western media.

[–] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 32 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I've noticed there's a lot of racism involved too; I recall the media's initial mockery and skepticism of Cuba when they revealed they'd had success with a lung cancer vaccine, or mockery of Iran in regards to their ability to reverse engineer drones, claiming no one there had the skills for it.

[–] alexei_1917@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago

Yeah. That side of it is just sad and frustrating, the Red Scare type nonsense is at least funny.

[–] Saymaz@lemmygrad.ml 29 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yup.

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[–] rubber_chicken@hexbear.net 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (12 children)

Eating burnt red meat while smoking reds with the filters ripped out to stick it to Beijing.

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[–] TrustedFeline@hexbear.net 60 points 1 month ago (3 children)

You just know the CIA is cooking up a supercancer that can beat the cure.

[–] jizzong@hexbear.net 34 points 1 month ago

Sorry, can't have free healthcare cause CIA needs all the money to develop new ways to make people sick.

[–] red_giant@hexbear.net 29 points 1 month ago

We need to research gain of function for brain eating bacteria

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[–] kleeon@hexbear.net 49 points 1 month ago (1 children)

achieving AGI

I've heard China is also very close to finding the boogeyman

[–] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 16 points 1 month ago

We have to win the "Asking ChatGPT to act like it's 10x smarter than itself" race at all costs!

[+] RedSturgeon@hexbear.net 46 points 1 month ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (2 children)

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[–] aanes_appreciator@hexbear.net 36 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Capitalism as a system is anolygous to a cancer. It has no morality, no consciousness, no realization that its very existence is its own death sentence.

[–] MLRL_Commie@hexbear.net 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I always find this one interesting. I think Capitalism as en entire system isn't necessarily cancerous in total. Marx probably didn't have the vision of cancer we have today, but I think his analogy about the vampire was still better. Capitalism as a system is hard to just call a cancer because it is productive, because its laborers are productive. Capital as cancer in the system is closer, but still not as good. So saying that capital is a vampire, and so capitalism is a society dominated by vampires, is a better analogy. It is dead, but can only keep itself moving and growing by consuming the living (labor). In doing so, it grows and gets more hungry, and continuously needs to balance a need to consume more versus to let the living (labor) produce (so that it can be consumed). Cancer has no such mechanism to protect itself and no desire to stay alive and growing. Capital is mindless but the system gives it interests and mechanisms to act within the system in its own interest.

I guess my point is that cancer as an analogy underestimates capital and the system in which capital functions as the organizer of labor.

Long rant, no real reason I wrote this out except I was kinda bored. Calling it cancer is fine too lol

[–] Johnny_Arson@hexbear.net 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Marx on Capital as a real god

What about the individual people who participate in this social practice? Surely their individual consciousness, their ideas, and their behaviour matter, and make a difference?

To a certain extent they do of course. But individuals come and go, but capitals live much longer than any individual human. The people controlled by the capital — that is the workers that supply labour to firms, and capitalists that exploit them and extract profits — are mere replaceable components in the control loop, mechanically performing prescribed functional roles.

[–] MLRL_Commie@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Ian Wright is great. Vampires live longer than humans (but canonically are dead right?), just like capital. Good addition

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[–] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago

they are not clueless of what the ramification of their actions are, like how a cancer cell might be, they're far worse than that.

No but it's okay you see because the people they hurt live in a dictatorship, not in a democracy like the good guys like Ukraine and Denmark.

[–] DerRedMax@hexbear.net 43 points 1 month ago (1 children)

China has cured cancer.

But at what cost?

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[–] GladimirLenin@hexbear.net 34 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

These people are inhuman monsters. Truly the most disgusting evil people on the planet

[–] miz@hexbear.net 31 points 1 month ago (1 children)

that Xi Jinping is targeting

liberals stop pretending one guy rules China by himself challenge

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[–] Wheaties@hexbear.net 26 points 1 month ago (3 children)

It'd be cool to be surprised by this, but I kinda think "curing" cancer is nearly a big a fantasy as AGI. What is there to cure? Cells being damaged? Treatment will continue to be refined, sure, but don't expect to ever see a panacea.

[–] Wheaties@hexbear.net 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

also,

smart export controls that target the critical inputs for China's technological and military machine

YOU DID THAT ALREADY AND GOT FUCK ALL TO SHOW FOR IT WHAAT ARE YOU TALKING ABUT

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[–] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You make a little robot and tell it to go in there and get that cancer

[–] huf@hexbear.net 17 points 1 month ago (2 children)

you make a submarine and put a dude in it and shrink the whole thing and inject it into the patient, like in that documentary i saw

[–] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well yeah if you're american workers lives are cheaper than robots

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[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 17 points 1 month ago

yeah "cancer" is a pattern of cellular behavior and the causes of it are myriad and depend on the type of cell that's fucking up.

there's almost certainly never going to be a generic cure or prevention for all cancers. maybe some scifi shit with human cloning and brain transplants but that's not fixing the cancer in the body that has it.

[–] WhyEssEff@hexbear.net 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

natsec is when you can't let anyone else do anything that benefits anyone because that means they have one over on you

[–] TrustedFeline@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago

I have a competition in me. I want no one else to succeed. I hate most people

[–] PanArab@lemmy.ml 24 points 1 month ago (2 children)

What good goods does the US make that someone in China would want? A Ford F-350?

[–] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I've seen a yank tank in Wuhan, and I'm 80% sure it was for a photoshoot.

[–] Krem@hexbear.net 16 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I've seen american dick pills at the flea market in Wuhan, they had the american flag on the package. the packaging of the pills i mean

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[–] SootySootySoot@hexbear.net 21 points 1 month ago

Cold war is back on the menu

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 20 points 1 month ago

I'd rather see a million dead kids from cancer then even entertain the idea of CHYNER curing it.

[–] Riffraffintheroom@hexbear.net 19 points 1 month ago

Openly speaking like a Captain Planet villain.

[–] LENINSGHOSTFACEKILLA@hexbear.net 17 points 1 month ago

"our approach would have failed"

Well. Good news for ya lads. It already has.

[–] ghosts@hexbear.net 17 points 1 month ago

We're good, Biden already cured cancer, he promised.

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