• Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz
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    6 days ago

    To be clear, Hussain Houthi died 30 years+ ago and they’ve controlled the government for over a decade. The organization is called Ansar Allah. It’d be like if we called the UK’s ruling party “Blairs”.

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      6 days ago

      More like 22 years and the current leader is his brother who shares the last name. If he ever dies, it’ll probably be handed to another member of the Houthi family.

      Your example would be more apt if there were several people from the historic Blair tribe in the UK’s ruling party and it’d been them leading the party from its inception.