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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"
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2024 09:27:43 -0400
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On 4/4/24 11:01 PM, moviePig wrote:
> On 4/4/2024 9:38 PM, Rhino wrote:
>> On Thu, 04 Apr 2024 18:22:48 -0700
>> BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
>>
>>> In article <uunf55$v0c0$1@dont-email.me>, FPP <fredp1571@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 4/4/24 4:02 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>>>> In article <uumno6$p8sf$2@dont-email.me>,
>>>>>    Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> 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!"
> 
> You may *dream* it.  You don't *know* it.
> 
> In fact, though it's an obvious riposte, I think I've never heard it...


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