Date: Sat, 6 Apr 2024 18:00:20 -0400
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Subject: Re: Jimmy Kimmel Calls USA "Filthy And Disgusting" After Traveling to Japan: "We Are Like Hogs Compared to the Japanese"
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On 4/6/2024 2:54 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> In article <17c3b84215071849$362$1351842$40d50a60@news.newsdemon.com>,
>   moviePig <never@nothere.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 4/5/2024 7:10 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>> On Apr 5, 2024 at 4:00:25 PM PDT, "moviePig" <never@nothere.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 4/5/2024 5:28 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>>>>    On Apr 5, 2024 at 1:28:21 PM PDT, "moviePig" <never@nothere.com> wrote:
>>>>>    
>>>>>>    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.
>>>>>    
>>>>> 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.)
>>
>> I haven't been to L.A., which I'm sure has plenty of tourist trade. But
>> I've not seen any state's economy so dedicated to it as Florida's.
> 
> Florida has beaches and alligators.
> 
> California has beaches plus dozens of other tourist sites. I haven't
> crunched the numbers, but off the top of my head, I'd guess tourism is
> significantly bigger in California than Florida.** Hell, we have
> Yosemite here, too. That alone would rival Florida's tourist numbers.
> 
> And I'll leave this here again since you seem to have missed it the
> first time: The streets of Dallas aren't covered in human shit, either.
> Not exactly a tourist Mecca.
> 
> 
> **Although I will admit, the leftist government here is doing everything
> it can to destroy the tourism industry in California. Earlier this
> month, a 6-year-old girl was making the tourist rounds with her family
> and she was put into a coma by a psychotic vagrant who walked up to her
> and punched in the face, knocking her to the sidewalk where her head
> bounced off the concrete. A vagrant who was on his 20th trip on the
> catch-and-release merry-go-round that the leftists here call a criminal
> justice system.
> 
> If she survives, I don't suppose she or her family will ever come back
> to California again and the tales they'll tell to their friends and
> neighbors back in Des Moines or Knoxville or Tulsa or wherever they're
> from will ensure they don't, either.

    "The tourism industry is responsible for 2.9% of the U.S. GDP. That 
number is even higher in Florida, where tourism represents 10% of the 
state's overall GDP."
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https://www.xola.com/articles/us-tourism-top-states-stats-round-up-post/
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But what I'm talking about is, e.g., a general constant awareness of 
"tourist season", which I've not encountered elsewhere.