Re: Jimmy Kimmel Calls USA "Filthy And Disgusting" After Traveling to Japan: "We Are Like Hogs Compared to the Japanese"

On Apr 5, 2024 at 4:00:25 PM PDT, "moviePig" <never@nothere.com> wrote:

On 4/5/2024 5:28 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

 On Apr 5, 2024 at 1:28:21 PM PDT, "moviePig" <never@nothere.com> wrote:
 

 On 4/5/2024 3:29 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

   FPP <fredp1571@gmail.com> wrote:

   On 4/4/24 11:40 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

   In article <uunqht$152al$1@dont-email.me>,
   super70s <super70s@super70s.invalid> wrote:
 

   On 2024-04-05 00:03:47 +0000, FPP said:

 

   So you'd be OK with higher taxes to fix our problems at home, right?
   Because that's how things work.

 
   Tokyo has 14 million people, I doubt "everywhere you go" is so clean it
   would pass a Drill Sergeant's inspection (google "Tokyo slums" if you
   don't believe me).
 
   Kimmel's rant fits in well with our homegrown rightwingers' racist dog
   whistle about "dirty Blue-run cities" though.

 
   How exactly is it racist to point out how filthy and trash-strewn and
   graffiti-covered the blue cities are?
 

   Because when you look at the states that are consistently at the bottom
   of the barrel in terms of education, infant mortality, income, etc, -
   they're all Red States.

  
   Which has nothing to do with why the sidewalks of Los Angeles are covered
   with human shit and the sidewalks of Miami are not.

 
 No, that'd owe to tourism.

 
 You're saying it's the tourists that are shitting on our sidewalks?
 
 Really?

 
Kowtowing to tourism is a sacred calling in So. Florida.

And it's not in L.A. with Hollywood, Venice Beach, the Walk of Fame,
Disneyland, etc.? Tourists are all over the West Side. The TMZ-style buses and
vans clog traffic everywhere, shuttling loads of them around to various stars'
homes and places where various movies and TV shows were filmed.

(Hint: the streets of Dallas aren't covered in human shit, either. Not exactly
a tourist Mecca.)