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:
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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.

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  No, that'd owe to tourism.

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

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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.)