Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2024 18:00:20 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: Jimmy Kimmel Calls USA "Filthy And Disgusting" After Traveling to Japan: "We Are Like Hogs Compared to the Japanese" Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv References: <17c37c40e756997f$4760$3037545$10d55a65@news.newsdemon.com> <17c3848d42c853b7$3283$2820980$c4d58e68@news.newsdemon.com> <0B2dnf7k4IZRGY37nZ2dnZfqn_oAAAAA@giganews.com> <17c3b84215071849$362$1351842$40d50a60@news.newsdemon.com> Content-Language: en-US From: moviePig In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 94 Path: ...!news.snarked.org!tncsrv06.tnetconsulting.net!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!diablo1.usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder.usenetexpress.com!tr2.iad1.usenetexpress.com!news.newsdemon.com!not-for-mail Nntp-Posting-Date: Sat, 06 Apr 2024 22:00:21 +0000 X-Received-Bytes: 5250 Organization: NewsDemon - www.newsdemon.com X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsdemon.com Message-Id: <17c3cfda9deb4ef6$4835$1768716$4ad50060@news.newsdemon.com> Bytes: 5638 On 4/6/2024 2:54 PM, BTR1701 wrote: > In article <17c3b84215071849$362$1351842$40d50a60@news.newsdemon.com>, > moviePig wrote: > >> On 4/5/2024 7:10 PM, BTR1701 wrote: >>> On Apr 5, 2024 at 4:00:25 PM PDT, "moviePig" wrote: >>> >>>> On 4/5/2024 5:28 PM, BTR1701 wrote: >>>>> On Apr 5, 2024 at 1:28:21 PM PDT, "moviePig" wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> On 4/5/2024 3:29 PM, BTR1701 wrote: >>>>>>> FPP wrote: >>>>>>>> On 4/4/24 11:40 PM, BTR1701 wrote: >>>>>>>>> In article , >>>>>>>>> super70s 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? >>>> >>>> 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.) >> >> I haven't been to L.A., which I'm sure has plenty of tourist trade. But >> I've not seen any state's economy so dedicated to it as Florida's. > > Florida has beaches and alligators. > > California has beaches plus dozens of other tourist sites. I haven't > crunched the numbers, but off the top of my head, I'd guess tourism is > significantly bigger in California than Florida.** Hell, we have > Yosemite here, too. That alone would rival Florida's tourist numbers. > > And I'll leave this here again since you seem to have missed it the > first time: The streets of Dallas aren't covered in human shit, either. > Not exactly a tourist Mecca. > > > **Although I will admit, the leftist government here is doing everything > it can to destroy the tourism industry in California. Earlier this > month, a 6-year-old girl was making the tourist rounds with her family > and she was put into a coma by a psychotic vagrant who walked up to her > and punched in the face, knocking her to the sidewalk where her head > bounced off the concrete. A vagrant who was on his 20th trip on the > catch-and-release merry-go-round that the leftists here call a criminal > justice system. > > If she survives, I don't suppose she or her family will ever come back > to California again and the tales they'll tell to their friends and > neighbors back in Des Moines or Knoxville or Tulsa or wherever they're > from will ensure they don't, either. "The tourism industry is responsible for 2.9% of the U.S. GDP. That number is even higher in Florida, where tourism represents 10% of the state's overall GDP." ---------------- https://www.xola.com/articles/us-tourism-top-states-stats-round-up-post/ ---------------- But what I'm talking about is, e.g., a general constant awareness of "tourist season", which I've not encountered elsewhere.