Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2024 10:47:56 -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> Content-Language: en-US From: moviePig In-Reply-To: <0B2dnf7k4IZRGY37nZ2dnZfqn_oAAAAA@giganews.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 55 Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.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 14:47:57 +0000 X-Received-Bytes: 3174 Organization: NewsDemon - www.newsdemon.com X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsdemon.com Message-Id: <17c3b84215071849$362$1351842$40d50a60@news.newsdemon.com> Bytes: 3553 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.