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

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

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

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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).
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Kimmel's rant fits in well with our homegrown rightwingers' racist dog
whistle about "dirty Blue-run cities" though.

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