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

On 4/4/2024 9:38 PM, Rhino wrote:

On Thu, 04 Apr 2024 18:22:48 -0700
BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
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In article <uunf55$v0c0$1@dont-email.me>, FPP <fredp1571@gmail.com>
wrote:
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On 4/4/24 4:02 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

In article <uumno6$p8sf$2@dont-email.me>,
   Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:

Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel said he's looking at America in a
new light after a recent visit to Japan.
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The 56-year-old said his trip abroad made him realize that the
U.S. is unsanitary compared to the land of the rising sun.
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"After traveling to Japan, I realize that this place, this USA
we're always
chanting about, is a filthy and disgusting country," he said
during his monologue on Monday night's episode of "Jimmy Kimmel
Live."

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I agree with him. My trip to Tokyo was an eye-opener. I've never
seen a city so clean and beautiful with pleasant, polite, happy
people everywhere you go. Its only drawback was that-- of all the
places I've been around the world-- it's one of the harder cities
to get around and function in if you don't speak the language. I
thought at the time that if I spoke and read Japanese, I'd
consider living in Tokyo for good if I could.
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Coming back to the shit-pile Los Angeles has become in just the
last 10 short years was very disheartening.
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It's no surprise it would be especially noticeable to Kimmel,
whose show's home is in an old Masonic temple right across
Hollywood Blvd from the Chinese Theater and the
Hollywood-and-Highland Complex, where fentanyl addicts stagger
around like WALKING DEAD extras, crime is out of control,
vagrants tents and trash mountains abound, and dead bodies lying
on the sidewalk are a routine occurrence.
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Coming back to that from Japan would be quite a contrast indeed.

Japan's taxes vs US are generally considered to be pretty high.

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At least the citizens of Japan get value in return for their taxes.
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I live in the highest tax state in the union and when we call the
cops for things like a vagrant openly masturbating in a park while
watching kids, the response is "there's nothing we can do".
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Betcha that doesn't happen in Japan.
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When businesses are run into the ground by repeated break-ins and the
fact that customers can't even get into their front doors anymore
because there's a tent and trash mountain and meth addict face-down
in a puddle of his own vomit blocking them, if they get any response
from the city council besides a bored shrug, they're told "there's
nothing we can do".
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Betcha that doesn't happen in Japan.
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Over and over, crime after crime... "There's nothing we can do. Now
shut up and give us more tax money."
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So you'd be OK with higher taxes to fix our problems at home,
right?

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Except I already pay higher taxes and the problems only get worse
here.
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Over the last three years the people of L.A. County were taxed more
than $3 billion "to fight homelessness". At the end of that three
years, with three billion of our tax dollars gone, what was the
result?
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Homelessness has increased by 32%.

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You just *know* the "progressive" response to that will be: "Just think
how much worse it would have been if we hadn't spent that $3 billion on
the problem!"

 You may *dream* it.  You don't *know* it.
 In fact, though it's an obvious riposte, I think I've never heard it...