Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2024 03:26:02 -0500 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: <20240404213809.0000331f@example.com> Content-Language: en-US From: trotsky In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 167 Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!usenet.goja.nl.eu.org!nntp.terraraq.uk!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 08:26:02 +0000 X-Received-Bytes: 8879 Organization: NewsDemon - www.newsdemon.com X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsdemon.com Message-Id: <17c3a36ae928cfde$5$2218499$46d50c60@news.newsdemon.com> Bytes: 9311 On 4/4/24 9:54 PM, BTR1701 wrote: > In article <20240404213809.0000331f@example.com>, > 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!" > > Where I part ways with Kimmel on this is that he acts like L.A.'s > situation is representative of America. You're lying. As usual. You "part ways with Kimmel" every time he utters a word. What the fuck are you event talking about? Yes, Los Angeles is a miserable > and disgusting place, unfit for human occupation, but not every place in > America is like L.A. Most places are not. Just the Democrat-run big blue > cities. > > The problem with leftist goobers like Kimmel is that they'll make these > kinds of observations about somewhere like Japan, but then exhibit no > curiosity whatsoever as to why Tokyo is like that but L.A is not. They > simply make the observation and then move on. These people are so > dimwitted and incurious that they can notice a stark and shocking > difference like this-- that Japan's cities are clean and attractive and > safe, while ours are garbage dumps-- without ever stopping for even a > moment to reflect on the 'how' and the 'why' of it. > > Or even worse, they'll notice something like this and bring it up for > discussion and then stridently condemn anyone who tries to talk about > the 'how' and the 'why' as some kind -ist or -phobe. > > In this case, the how and why are obvious to anyone who isn't a raging > leftist like Kimmel and his friends. > > Japan is a homogenous country. Nearly everyone is Japanese by ancestry > and ethnicity. Everyone shares one language, one culture, and that > culture is one that values discipline, hard work, respect for authority, > and education. And the Japanese also have a very high average IQ as a > people. The highest in the world, in fact. > > So you can see why Kimmel doesn't want to talk about the why. Japan has > made itself so clean and safe and orderly precisely by rejecting > Kimmel's own world view. > > Kimmel, as an avowed leftist, believes that 'diversity is our strength', > that compassion requires us to throw open our borders and invite the > entire 3rd-world in, that we ought to have no national language, no real > nationwide shared culture, and that we should treat all cultures the > same. > > But Japan is the way it is because it has, up till now, done the > opposite of all that. And now Kimmel excoriates America for not being > like Japan while insisting that America not do any of the things Japan > has done to make itself that way. And we should continue to do all of > the things that make our cities dirty and revolting, even as he > complains that our cities are dirty and revolting. > > There are things that we can do to make our cities cleaner and safer. We > probably won't ever get to Japan-level-- that toothpaste was squeezed > out of the tube a long time ago-- but we don't have to live like this. > Our cities don't need to be scenes from a post-apocalyptic Mad Max > movie. They can be cleaned up, it's just Kimmel and his fellow > travelers, while complaining that the cites are disgusting, doesn't want > to do any of the necessary things to clean them up. > > Those things would include shutting down illegal immigration, seriously > punish those who hire illegals, enforcing the laws in our cities > strictly and severely, outlawing vagrancy, rounding up the mentally ill > whose malady prevents them from caring for their own basic needs and > institutionalizing them, harshly punishing both drug dealers and > consumers, putting repeat offenders in prison with lengthy sentences, > strictly enforcing laws against vandalism, littering, loitering, > camping, open fires, public indecency, public urination, public > intoxication, theft, robbery, assault, battery-- pretty much the entire > section of the penal code that is currently being routinely ignored. > > In short, imposing order with force and severity. That's how you do it. > There is no other way to do it. At least no other way for *us* to do it. > The Japan option is not on the table anymore, so we're left with having > to do it the ugly way. > > We can clean things up the ugly way or we can continue to have an ugly > country. Those are the only two options. Jimmy Kimmel has chosen the > latter. He and his leftist friends choose to have an ugly country while > complaining that the country is ugly.