Posts by dubmugga
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sometimes i'm not the person i pretend to be and i dont want to be held accountable for what i say as some of my online personas no more than a superhero wants to be accountable for damage to public amenities in the course of saving the world or say, america in democratizing iraq and liberating afghanistan.
case in point, i got stood over at work once by a very irate rapper of some note for dissing him online and apart from not wanting to make a scene at work given it's inappropriateness. i'd always claimed that what i said should be noted in the same context as marshall mathers inventing a character named slim shady, narrating a story by an alternate persona named eminem, to extoll views about marshalls ex which he may not have held himself.
thinking back maybe i shoulda just kicked his arse and prolly ended up as another victim in subsequent tit for tat reprisals of hiphop violence. My kids woulda loved that...not! ahh but my integrity would have been intact.
so anyway, should journalists be worried about law suits if its the truth they reveal ? i say no, but its not my livelihood i have to protect either so to each their own.
that said there are stories needing to be given more airtime than mikeys parking tickets, dan carters undies or what shrek the sheeps been up to lately ?
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re : sexuality Gen, yeah fair enough, off limits but how about sexual exploits...like the latest name supressed kiwi musician of note whereby it would affect his international marketability if it got out that he flopped his wang out in front of 3 teenage girls and told them to kiss his balls.
This after all is a contemporary pop musician whose demographic is those whose trust he betrays. Hypocrisy is a byword for justice by media.
Craig, of course i dont think its coincidental that gutter dwellers hide behind pseudonyms nor is it that superheroes hide behind masks and flash costumes. its more to protect their families who dont dwell in gutters or have super powers. My family would be so shamed if they knew i dwelled in the gutter when they expected so much from me, but with that comes the abiity to do and say things beyond the powers of your average citizen with either little or great responsibility.
its a fine line between the comedian and dr manhattan:)
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perhaps Russell you could counterfactualise the scenario if you got the 'smoking gun' email Cactus Kate got. What would you have done ?
good on her for blogging it and FWIW i too think blogging is the last refuge of the free press.
say for arguments sake, there were a list of people you knew not to fuck with in public at the expense of your job/companies legal budget, the inference is, theres subjects you dont broach in public either...
...call them conspiracy theories, secret neoliberal agendas or plain ol muckraking but it seems easier to not bite the hand that feeds, toe the company/gov't line, wind your neck in, keep your mouth shut and learn to write cutesy animal stories jo public loves to be distracted by
so for entertainments sake what are some of these stories ? outing sexual preference and drug habits of celebrities/politicians ? trampling of indigenous rights/instituionalised racism ? big pharma ? insider trading ?
seems we only get those when a scapegoat is needed for a very public sacrifice.
personally i'd like to read more about "those sorts" of stories from the presumed 'legit' source that a journo tenured to a mainstream media company provides than the dumbed down shit we do get spoonfed by them, and as representative of your average dumfuck i bet i'm not alone.
its just too easy to dismiss and discredit bloggers as crackpots and play "shoot the messenger" but when the mob mentality kicks in i suspect a case of 'though dost protest too much' and where theres smoke theres fire.
and lastly i wouldn't want to be outed with my real name either:)
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a list of types of people who are most likely to sue? .
...prolly be the same names as on hones raping muthafuckas list
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i'm with colin on this one...
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i think in a not too distant future it will be possible to cherry pick the best things from various cultures and technologies. yep we'll take the wheel, the internet, the good medicine and throwaway the guns, the drugs and the capitalist ideology but i reckon it's going to take an evolutionary step forward in consciousness to do it.
the other thing is, maybe in a couple more generations we'll be able to look back ,and this is my point that michael king didn't acknowledge, and see a distinct third wave of polynesian settlement when my mother and her siblings and many others came over in the 60's and onwards to take up scholarships and general unskilled or labour intensive positions, coinciding with the urbanisation and subsequent ghettoisation of maori. that third wave directly influenced the, up til then, bicultural relationship between pakeha and maori, recontextualising it within the wider polynesian context and consquently changing the cultural landscape forever. pakeha culture has co opted as much from third wave settlers as the second wave of most maori, with the origins of first wave original settlers, including the early polynesians, still shrouded in prehistoric mystery and legend.
if you want to talk bicultural national identity without including "half caste" and NZ born poly's and just deal with the maori/pakeha thing then you're doing it at your ignorance and peril.
maybe if we'd been open enough to acknowledge and deal with it sooner and not just institutionalise the cultural elitism of euro pakeha then the next big cultural influx that has been alluded to may not have taken such a strong hold on the current generation of all ethinicites, namely black american identity and politics in the form of hiphop. if the younguns are looking anywhere for guidance its more probably to america than ozzy.
in parliament and thru the ages we've had our first women mp's/pm, first maori's, poly's,asians, gays, transexuals, rastas but have we had our first hiphop mp yet ?
hone comes close with his attitude, colourful language and hand gestures but he's not the real thing, although i think maybe he's the first to access it. i just dont know if its a 'conscious' thing, seems more like 'gangsta':)
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general consensus even upon talking to some boaties is a sign of some description. i got an appointment to meet nick smith 4th of december.
ideally what would be good is a national standard sign for use on all public beaches/estuaries of historical note
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haha...nigga please i wasnt even talking to you
i was talking more about whitey legitimately claiming tangata whenua status by virtue of having occupied your lands and breeding with you for centuries.
i'm talkin bout takin the best they got, not taking the worst in the form of corporate capitalism and making it yours, nah fuck it ours, our kids, all of us not, just those descendents from an old skool register which is ultimately what lies at the heart of the foreshore and seabed issue.
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But... everyone knows Ngai Tahu weren't the 'original settlers of the South Island'.
but danielle not everyone does know that. certainly not your average white muthafucka and its not like you guys promote it either. its not in your best interest and neither is it to acknowledge brailsford as anything other than a new age loony.
the point is not to aggrieve on the treaty or what percentage of ancestry you derive from where but to highlight the nature of indigenousity and exactly how long does one have to live in settlement as an immigrant within a region to gain indigenous or tangata whenua status ? as applied to the treaty, the question then begs, is it still possible to form new hapu and iwi from ngai tahu and claim further settlement from tront ?
The process was again one of small incursions, occasional bloodshed, piecemeal occupation...forged to legitimise residence in each region
apply what you wrote there to the west bank and the israeli occupation. they are going on 3 generations of continued settlement or even by virtue of their histories recorded as the old testament can they legitimately claim tangata whenua status and fuck what anyone else thinks ?