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

Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:

On Fri, 5 Apr 2024 09:30:49 -0400
FPP <fredp1571@gmail.com> wrote:
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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.
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When did California become a Red State? Because it is ranked at the
BOTTOM of all 50 states in terms of education.

 But we have the highest paid teachers in the nation, so you can see what a
great ROI we're getting for that tax money.