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On 4/5/2024 3:29 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> FPP <fredp1571@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 4/4/24 11:40 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>> In article <uunqht$152al$1@dont-email.me>,
>>> super70s <super70s@super70s.invalid> 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.