Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: FPP Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: Jimmy Kimmel Calls USA "Filthy And Disgusting" After Traveling to Japan: "We Are Like Hogs Compared to the Japanese" Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2024 10:25:06 -0400 Organization: Ph'nglui Mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh Wgah'nagl Fhtagn. Lines: 42 Message-ID: References: <20240405113612.00003a57@example.com> Reply-To: fredp1571@gmail.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2024 14:25:09 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="26c008e836d7fbd465f599f2dd499d40"; logging-data="3732172"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+krAgOgk9bQYhKx7xT5kG3" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.10.0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:ls/Bw/8Wz5LW3X8ubH53bty9ehc= In-Reply-To: <20240405113612.00003a57@example.com> Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 3004 On 4/5/24 11:36 AM, Rhino wrote: > On Fri, 5 Apr 2024 09:30:49 -0400 > 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. >> > When did California become a Red State? Because it is ranked at the > BOTTOM of all 50 states in terms of education. It isn't. Nowhere near the bottom. https://deepcreektimes.com/2023s-most-least-educated-states-in-america/ -- "Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a man’s mind." - OC Bible 25B.G. https://www.dropbox.com/s/ek8kap93bmk0q5w/D%20U%20N%20E%20Part%20II.jpg?dl=0 Gracie, age 6. https://www.dropbox.com/s/0es3xolxka455iw/BetterThingsToDo.jpg?dl=0