Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2024 19:00:25 -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: <5iadnWi7MamfzI37nZ2dnZfqn_adnZ2d@giganews.com> <17c37c40e756997f$4760$3037545$10d55a65@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: 40 Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!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: Fri, 05 Apr 2024 23:00:25 +0000 X-Received-Bytes: 2334 Organization: NewsDemon - www.newsdemon.com X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsdemon.com Message-Id: <17c3848d42c853b7$3283$2820980$c4d58e68@news.newsdemon.com> Bytes: 2742 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.