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A lot more people are starting to learn the truth about Palestinian history now. It's waking up both some Americans at home and anti-American sentiment abroad.

“The U.S. should consider that these actions in Gaza are enraging people throughout the region,” said Al-Omeisy. “The local perception is that when Palestinian blood was being shed the last three months, no one was bothered, but when the economic interests of the West were threatened, they immediately acted. This message fits right into Houthi rhetoric and is resonating very strongly in the region.”

Their bid is working. Rather than weakening the Houthis, the U.S. airstrikes seem to be boosting the Houthis’ political standing throughout the Middle East, where analysts say public opinion of the U.S. has reached lows not seen since the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq.

https://theintercept.com/2024/01/19/houthis-yemen-biden-airstrikes/

Not knowing how anything works is the key to having those takes.

I haven't looked into this particular drug but what many times happens in the U.S. when a drug's patent is about to expire is that the manufacturers repackage the chemical compound under a different name and for a different disease and then they can re-patent the compound as something new and continue raking in the big bucks instead of letting the patent expire and generics take over (in actual free market competition btw), which would make the drug very affordable for consumers. The direct effect of this is that consumers are sometimes taking the wrong medicine, in order to support the profitability of the pharmaceutical industry. For example an anti-psychotic which has a patent expiring is rebranded as a sleeping pill (because many anti-psychotics make people sedated as a secondary effect) and gets a new patent for 20 years which props up the price of the drug, mevermind that anti-psychotics cause brain atrophy and, because of the profit-driven incentive model of private healthcare, are sometimes incorrectly prescribed to children for behavioural issues instead of psychotic symptoms. Yay for the stock price!

I hope it's not like Windows updates; sitting in your car for 40 minutes before work because you can't use the car until the update is complete.

I might be the guy that shows up at the revolution for the most trivial reason but I hate that it says $59.00 per annually like companies think they're so smart for having business school graduates on staff charging for things only business school graduates would think to charge for but they can't even get basic grammar right.

Thanks, that was a clear explanation.

It's ironic that the weak, pro-Iran government that is the result of US intervention in Iraq seems like it's worse for US interests than Saddam was.

Nailed it! (Aside from thinking it's ironic)

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Come on man you don't have to murder him like that.

I don't get it, are you trying to preserve life or eliminate it? Wait a minute... do you mean

Guaranteed employment for the weapons industry?

What about the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, was it also wrong?