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 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?