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

submitted 2 months ago by Yuritopiaposadism@hexbear.net to c/sino@hexbear.net

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[–] abc@hexbear.net 74 points 2 months 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 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

manifesting this

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[–] miz@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months 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 65 points 2 months 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 49 points 2 months ago

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

[–] vovchik_ilich@hexbear.net 25 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] ElChapoDeChapo@hexbear.net 22 points 2 months 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 19 points 2 months ago

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

[–] alexei_1917@hexbear.net 20 points 2 months 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 26 points 2 months 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 9 points 2 months ago

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

[–] Saymaz@lemmygrad.ml 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yup.

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[–] rubber_chicken@hexbear.net 16 points 2 months ago (12 children)

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

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[–] TrustedFeline@hexbear.net 48 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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

[–] jizzong@hexbear.net 25 points 2 months 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 18 points 2 months ago

We need to research gain of function for brain eating bacteria

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[+] RedSturgeon@hexbear.net 40 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

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[–] aanes_appreciator@hexbear.net 25 points 2 months 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 11 points 2 months 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 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Marx on Capital as a real god

[–] MLRL_Commie@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months 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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[–] Self_Sealing_Stem_Bolt@hexbear.net 8 points 2 months ago

You're right and this is why vampire stories originated from the Fear of The Rich/Ruling Class. Capitalists live by sucking the life force out of the working class (labour power) keeping them subjugated. Like vampires.

[–] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 11 points 2 months 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.

[–] kleeon@hexbear.net 40 points 2 months ago (1 children)

achieving AGI

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

[–] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 12 points 2 months ago

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

[–] DerRedMax@hexbear.net 35 points 2 months ago (1 children)

China has cured cancer.

But at what cost?

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[–] miz@hexbear.net 27 points 2 months ago (1 children)

that Xi Jinping is targeting

liberals stop pretending one guy rules China by himself challenge

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[–] GladimirLenin@hexbear.net 25 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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

[–] Wheaties@hexbear.net 24 points 2 months 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 16 points 2 months 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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[–] Le_Wokisme@hexbear.net 14 points 2 months 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.

[–] LeeeroooyJeeenkiiins@hexbear.net 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] huf@hexbear.net 15 points 2 months 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 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] WhyEssEff@hexbear.net 22 points 2 months 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 9 points 2 months ago

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

[–] SootySootySoot@hexbear.net 18 points 2 months ago

Cold war is back on the menu

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 16 points 2 months ago

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

[–] Riffraffintheroom@hexbear.net 15 points 2 months ago

Openly speaking like a Captain Planet villain.

[–] PanArab@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] CloutAtlas@hexbear.net 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Krem@hexbear.net 12 points 2 months 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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[–] LENINSGHOSTFACEKILLA@hexbear.net 14 points 2 months ago

"our approach would have failed"

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

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