What the fuck is wrong with your brain that you think people being sympathetic for human beings who are being mercilessly murdered by an oppressive regime is suspicious? Suspicion of what, Matt? What the fuck is wrong with you, Matt?
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Few internet people piss me off more than the militantly apathetic, the type that care a lot about others caring (as they see it) too much and make it a personal crusade to try to silence people that care (as they see it) too much.
The South Park crusade
Quite a lot of American conservatives (and libs, but MANY conservatives) cannot comprehend having sympathy for someone not part of their 'in group'.
Showing compassion is weak since people are supposed to pull themselves up, and helping them is either detrimental towards them 'developing those skills', or condescendingly insulting, or both (we won't talk about the 'if they're too weak they deserve it' freakshows). Never mind how they got there in the first place, or how deeply screwed they may be. Or maybe just showing compassion regardless.
SHUT UP! SHUT UP! SHUT UP!
People are "obsessed" with Palestine because it's been blatantly obvious that this very thing, this genocide, has been (at least for a lifetime) just around the corner the whole fucking time! Wholly funded and supported by the very states that it's "strange" people are obsessed about it in (just say white peole you fucking racist)! The most recent phase of which alone has been ramping up for longer than the entire Nazi rise to power, WW2, Holcaust, and fall of the Nazi regime! This has been the plan, the agenda, backed by our states for longer than I've been alive! And it's often seemed like the only things holding it back have been opposition in backer countries and the potential geopolitical fallout! People are obsessed because it's the most brazen, openly planned crime against humanity in a century and the absolute bottom of the barrel, lowest bar, simplest moral test imaginable! If you can't meet that standard you have no moral compass and your values are genocidal white supremacy, that's it!
By the way, noticing with Tlaib that White America is doing that thing again where any POC person who is expressing righteous anger over an injustice gets painted with the “irrational anger / hysterical / unhinged / crazed / hate-filled / etc” brush. Only white people are allowed to get mad, usually at grave injustices like “being told a wear a mask in a shop” and things like that. Death to America.
I was taken to the holocaust museum three times as a kid and got a very clear message: Never Again. The fact that the victims aren't Jewish this time is irrelevant.
What a piece of shit, also love how he starts to explains the plight of the Iraqi christian community which, in his words, was pushed to the brink of extinction by the american invasion.
Didn't you support that invasion from the beginning Matt, you grovelling motherfucker? Didn't you write articles supporting it? Didn't you scold anti war protestors then?
Man, I shouldn't get too worked up in the morning
any other humanitarian issue
Which issues in particular are more important to you, Matthew? 
Which issues in particular are more important to you, Matthew? 
Maybe one of those more important humanitarian issues is making sure that there are one billion humans living in 
?
Could even be something more important than climate change, which according to the self-described savior of humanity is "wokeness." The light of consciousness may never reach the stars unless N-words are screamed on headsets with unfettered abandon! 
How do you know they don't care about other things, Matt? Maybe they are responding so passionately because it's happening right fucking now and they just saw a pile of dead children in a video? Maybe that has some kind of radicalizing effect? If you're so concerned about other plights unplug your router and rattle some off for me. No cheating with Google. How about your ass tells me what the kids should be caring about. Terminally lib brained fuck.
neoliberals are inhuman
So what is it that makes it sus? You gonna start peddling the digital fentanyl are turning the kids pro-palestine Matty? Or are you going with the old reliable "the left is antisemitic"? Because you're not adding any conclusion here.
"Do white people in America REALLY are against dead brown foreigners?? That's sus."
t. Some round motherfucker
He isn't just implying that caring about causes is suspicious (well, not entirely), he is saying that caring about this specific cause this much is suspicious.
What is he suspecting lies behind it though? China, Russia or Antisemitism seem to be the most likely answers as he is a turbolib who doesn't understand why having your countrys leadership full throatedly endorsing an ongoing genocide that they're instrumental in perpetuating is a cause of outrage.
Taking into account his second tweet ("I took it very seriously, but it would be weird if some average college student was obsessed with this."), I do think he's implying that caring for any cause outside the US is weird at least (expect for professionals like himself of course)
But I also think it's all bad faith to shift focus from the current events from a natsec worshipping, PMC shitlib as he would clearly have remembered the protests against the Iraq war by a big section of the american public
He is still in the pre-conventional stage of moral development 
This made me go look up the Kohlberg stages and made me think that yes Heinz was correct to steal the drug from that price-gouging chemist and I hope he really fucked up his chemist's shop ransacking the place to find it and the chemist has a fucking heart attack right after writing down the formula
Wait what
One of the best-known of Kohlberg’s (1958) stories concerns a man called Heinz who lived somewhere in Europe.
Heinz’s wife was dying from a particular type of cancer. Doctors said a new drug might save her. The drug had been discovered by a local chemist, and the Heinz tried desperately to buy some, but the chemist was charging ten times the money it cost to make the drug, and this was much more than the Heinz could afford.
Heinz could only raise half the money, even after help from family and friends. He explained to the chemist that his wife was dying and asked if he could have the drug cheaper or pay the rest of the money later.
The chemist refused, saying that he had discovered the drug and was going to make money from it. The husband was desperate to save his wife, so later that night he broke into the chemist’s and stole the drug.
Should Heinz have broken into the laboratory to steal the drug for his wife? Why or why not?
Bourgeois chemist scum
obviously theft is permitted if it is for the preservation of life that's a no brainer
But what about the chemist's right to a profit? Why do you hate free enterprise and small businesses? 
to answer that seriously the chemist forfitted that right when upon being approached on a human level with the story of the mans need he didn't honour his duty to care for his fellow man. And by breaking the social code so severely he gave up it's protection
You'd be shocked how many apparent zombies there are running around with no brain.
Ohhh this thing!
How the fuck are people like this able to function in everyday life? Does he have any friends? Family? Who would willingly be around someone who is so emotionally undeveloped he can't understand the concept of empathy?
he literally has no concept of how to actually feel emotions. if you told this dude your dad died rather than showing any empathy i garuantee the most he could muster up is "it makes sense you'd be sad your dad died"
Absolute dipshit.
There’s this neat piece of functionality to the human brain where it can develop opinions and act on them via accounts of others experiences
How's that one billions Americans plan of yours going, Matty?
come on, before we can get that plan underway we have to spend money on liquidating entire nations.
Isn't Matthew Yglesias obsessed with wanting to overthrow China or something?
If Matty knows one thing really well - it's how to not get ratioed. I bet he rewrote tweets in that thread over and over and over again to get just the right "I'm just spitballin' here..." tone. Phrasing is key. It trumps content by a mile. People don't use their critical thinking skills enough to see and understand how vile he is.
What he's saying is right there but people still manage to miss it. All they need to do to understand is change the phrasing. He's saying "Why do any non-Palestinians care about Palestinians in particular?" If Trump fascism begins - Matty is ready. All he needs to do is go mask off and he's good to go.
I bet he rewrote tweets in that thread over and over and over again to get just the right "I'm just spitballin' here..." tone. Phrasing is key. It trumps content by a mile. People don't use their critical thinking skills enough to see and understand how vile he is.
Expert 
powers.
Yeah not sure where to even start with this one
I am a Syriac Christian telling him to go fuck himself, I hope he listens
anybody know of any podcasts that have dedicated an episode to dunk on his perfectly round brain?
started looking for this and instead I got lost in https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/21/podcasts/transcript-ezra-klein-interviews-matthew-yglesias.html
Ezra and Matty are longtime colleagues in dipshittery, this is going to be a snake eating its own tale of vapid liberal navelgazing
Chapo must have a bunch of episodes doing this hy mow.
yeah they have reading series of his for sure, I'm more thinking of an overview critique / deep dive type of episode like Grubstakers did for example
Of course reptiles like yggy can't grasp the concept of empathy
I mean he does have a point im not a useless waste of skin like matty so i dont care what happens to him
he just can't fuckin stop. if this guy stopped posting Ls he would drop dead.
he's so stupid and annoying
i'm really concerned about the jewish people
I'll take your word for it mr. president
stop committing genocide in our name mr. president
isn't it weird for you all to be obsessed with this issue?