Path: ...!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: Fri, 5 Apr 2024 09:27:43 -0400 Organization: Ph'nglui Mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh Wgah'nagl Fhtagn. Lines: 96 Message-ID: References: <20240404213809.0000331f@example.com> <17c3432719809c85$51970$3384359$c2d58868@news.newsdemon.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: Fri, 05 Apr 2024 13:27:44 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="063ea0b658a1ac6b51e979dc5f177e55"; logging-data="1482286"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18Owvb5TjrDtPN8bh7kOzwV" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.10.0 Cancel-Lock: sha1:nlzwyLzpCyFw3r8q702lXDQ6txM= In-Reply-To: <17c3432719809c85$51970$3384359$c2d58868@news.newsdemon.com> Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 5536 On 4/4/24 11:01 PM, moviePig wrote: > On 4/4/2024 9:38 PM, Rhino wrote: >> On Thu, 04 Apr 2024 18:22:48 -0700 >> BTR1701 wrote: >> >>> In article , FPP >>> wrote: >>> >>>> On 4/4/24 4:02 PM, BTR1701 wrote: >>>>> In article , >>>>>    Ubiquitous wrote: >>>>>> Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel said he's looking at America in a >>>>>> new light after a recent visit to Japan. >>>>>> >>>>>> The 56-year-old said his trip abroad made him realize that the >>>>>> U.S. is unsanitary compared to the land of the rising sun. >>>>>> >>>>>> "After traveling to Japan, I realize that this place, this USA >>>>>> we're always >>>>>> chanting about, is a filthy and disgusting country," he said >>>>>> during his monologue on Monday night's episode of "Jimmy Kimmel >>>>>> Live." >>>>> >>>>> I agree with him. My trip to Tokyo was an eye-opener. I've never >>>>> seen a city so clean and beautiful with pleasant, polite, happy >>>>> people everywhere you go. Its only drawback was that-- of all the >>>>> places I've been around the world-- it's one of the harder cities >>>>> to get around and function in if you don't speak the language. I >>>>> thought at the time that if I spoke and read Japanese, I'd >>>>> consider living in Tokyo for good if I could. >>>>> >>>>> Coming back to the shit-pile Los Angeles has become in just the >>>>> last 10 short years was very disheartening. >>>>> >>>>> It's no surprise it would be especially noticeable to Kimmel, >>>>> whose show's home is in an old Masonic temple right across >>>>> Hollywood Blvd from the Chinese Theater and the >>>>> Hollywood-and-Highland Complex, where fentanyl addicts stagger >>>>> around like WALKING DEAD extras, crime is out of control, >>>>> vagrants tents and trash mountains abound, and dead bodies lying >>>>> on the sidewalk are a routine occurrence. >>>>> >>>>> Coming back to that from Japan would be quite a contrast indeed. >>>> Japan's taxes vs US are generally considered to be pretty high. >>> >>> At least the citizens of Japan get value in return for their taxes. >>> >>> I live in the highest tax state in the union and when we call the >>> cops for things like a vagrant openly masturbating in a park while >>> watching kids, the response is "there's nothing we can do". >>> >>> Betcha that doesn't happen in Japan. >>> >>> When businesses are run into the ground by repeated break-ins and the >>> fact that customers can't even get into their front doors anymore >>> because there's a tent and trash mountain and meth addict face-down >>> in a puddle of his own vomit blocking them, if they get any response >>> from the city council besides a bored shrug, they're told "there's >>> nothing we can do". >>> >>> Betcha that doesn't happen in Japan. >>> >>> Over and over, crime after crime... "There's nothing we can do. Now >>> shut up and give us more tax money." >>> >>>> So you'd be OK with higher taxes to fix our problems at home, >>>> right? >>> >>> Except I already pay higher taxes and the problems only get worse >>> here. >>> >>> Over the last three years the people of L.A. County were taxed more >>> than $3 billion "to fight homelessness". At the end of that three >>> years, with three billion of our tax dollars gone, what was the >>> result? >>> >>> Homelessness has increased by 32%. >> >> You just *know* the "progressive" response to that will be: "Just think >> how much worse it would have been if we hadn't spent that $3 billion on >> the problem!" > > You may *dream* it.  You don't *know* it. > > In fact, though it's an obvious riposte, I think I've never heard it... Rhino lives in the shadow of Thanny's taint... -- "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