Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Rhino 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: Thu, 4 Apr 2024 21:38:09 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 85 Message-ID: <20240404213809.0000331f@example.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2024 01:38:11 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="cc1eb74cd3c41e03716d5077e6e1600a"; logging-data="1042953"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18Tk7od2nhqQv6pESs8Ac+V9FkAmHSypCM=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:b+XfcQSvnfDs8VrsoUe5C6d0OcE= X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Antivirus: Avast (VPS 240404-6, 4/4/2024), Outbound message X-Newsreader: Claws Mail 4.2.0 (GTK 3.24.41; x86_64-w64-mingw32) Bytes: 4798 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!" -- Rhino