Path: Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-2.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2024 23:10:03 +0000 From: BTR1701 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" References: <17c37c40e756997f$4760$3037545$10d55a65@news.newsdemon.com> <17c3848d42c853b7$3283$2820980$c4d58e68@news.newsdemon.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=fixed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Usenapp/0.92.2/l for MacOS Message-ID: <0B2dnf7k4IZRGY37nZ2dnZfqn_oAAAAA@giganews.com> Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2024 23:10:04 +0000 Lines: 49 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-MmrNNIPFL7lXczWKJPmVBK4s92m3haEoEGdEephXextZ+6wPMgsZp4Zr2FpvBdzt5z4Xvg5DbBfmA5+!7bMrvIBJmg9SRWxZXso0vVeKnm5j3zelVg21oG96VIqDVBpYaQBYAosdAj6K2iSAapgXEl55z5TF X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 3366 X-Original-Lines: 45 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.)