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 19:29:07 +0000 User-Agent: NewsTap/5.3.5 (iPhone/iPod Touch) Cancel-Lock: sha1:O309nFECNS/s0WOhB/SdHgufosY= 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" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: BTR1701 References: <20240405113612.00003a57@example.com> Message-ID: <5iadnWu7MamezI37nZ2dnZfqn_YAAAAA@giganews.com> Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2024 19:29:07 +0000 Lines: 33 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-3ZOzgrZyNJoWxkXCGmd/yzEqzvMUwI/rjRP5k+LdEo9mske9HSoqVBbK/+81I+WBDPN+i+cppv+g1oK!QF/iRhMcW283SSsqxLLCRIVwX9jzSOcEGhPYa/FNl6kzMKiaZjjrWq9fGQe98oIVT0iB/v+2QKxM 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: 2734 Rhino wrote: > On Fri, 5 Apr 2024 09:30:49 -0400 > 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. >> > When did California become a Red State? Because it is ranked at the > BOTTOM of all 50 states in terms of education. But we have the highest paid teachers in the nation, so you can see what a great ROI we're getting for that tax money.