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This will be called my most paranoid video yet... (Original Post) TheGreatConspiracy Jul 4 OP
Well, yes, the video calls it looting bucolic_frolic Jul 4 #1
Years ago, I was reading how in a lot of totalitarian systems, for the top people it is very easy to get organ LiberalArkie Jul 4 #2
That was the plot in an old Diagnosis Murder episode bucolic_frolic Jul 4 #4
Not so paranoid burrowowl Jul 4 #3

bucolic_frolic

(51,515 posts)
1. Well, yes, the video calls it looting
Fri Jul 4, 2025, 04:18 PM
Jul 4

but i've called it plunder. That was the system in Nazi Germany, from forcing Jewish people to sell businesses on the cheap, to stealing art, to dental gold, then pass it up the political chain of command. Then launder it in banks to keep the war going. Well documented in books on the time period.

LiberalArkie

(18,621 posts)
2. Years ago, I was reading how in a lot of totalitarian systems, for the top people it is very easy to get organ
Fri Jul 4, 2025, 04:23 PM
Jul 4

transplants. Almost made to order donors.

bucolic_frolic

(51,515 posts)
4. That was the plot in an old Diagnosis Murder episode
Fri Jul 4, 2025, 04:29 PM
Jul 4

not the top people part, but the sale of harvested organs. Shocking at the time. Not so much anymore.

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