Post #1348930

2026-04-13 14:52 UTC

Behold this new zine: "Hey Hey, Ho Ho, These Top 5 WORST Protest Chants Have Got To Go!" With assistance from many of you in identifying these top five terrible, horrible, no good, very bad chants, this zine is your go-to distro when faced with yet another afternoon of hearing "Whose Streets? Our Streets!" whilst marching on the sidewalk. Get it here to read on your giz, or to download to print with special ultra-low-res handdrawn cover: https://archive.org/details/top-5-worst-protest-chants Want a physical copy? Holler!

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@riotmuffin@ni.hil.ist 2026-04-14 17:28

#5 Worst Protest Chant: "Hey Hey, Ho Ho, [So And So] Has Got to Go!" Hate to break it to ya, but “so-and so” who has got to go, is just gonna be replaced with another schmuck who, in fact, has got to go too. The cycle continues and you will be able to holler this chant ad infinitum, and pass it on to your grandkids and their grandkids, to also holler at schmucks who have got to go. Is simply hollering the whole point of the exercise??? One of the biggest problems with shitty chants is simply that they reveal a theory of change that does not make logical sense and expose the chanters’ naivete. OK, sure, on the surface, we can agree that Donald Trump has got to go. Who the hell is gonna replace him, someone approximately as evil but slightly less demented or more likeable? Do we really want that? Furthermore, such a chant (and any chant like “Vote Them Out” or otherwise about voting) simply upholds the legitimacy of a system that has failed to bring fundamental change every 2, 4 and 6 years since your grandpaw was chanting at schmucks. [“Oh great, we voted them out!” Four years later “You're telling me they’re back in again?!”] We can do better than this, folks. Leave the vote-stanning and election-erections to the political parties and polling places. Also, the Hey-Hey-Ho-Ho chant is like, the first chant every toddler learns. It’s overused. It’s tired. It needs end-of-life palliative care. Be more creative. Ya schmucks. https://archive.org/details/top-5-worst-protest-chants

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@ophiocephalic@kolektiva.social 2026-04-13 15:47

@riotmuffin Always enjoy reading a new work by distinguished author Some Haters

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@roadblock161_@ni.hil.ist 2026-04-13 17:12

@riotmuffin seeing a couple of my own thoughts, however unoriginal, quoted on a zine that was made halfway across the world is giving me way more feels than it should. thank you for this impossibly small bit of human connection that I very well might still smile about a decade from now

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@unionwhore@ni.hil.ist 2026-04-22 14:56

@riotmuffin One of my favourite fun protest chants comes from the 'Marsch fürn Arsch' ('march for the ass') which is a yearly counterprotest to the 'Marsch für die Familie' ('march for the family') [or the 'march for life', an anti abortion march] by clerical fascists which is a yearly counterprotest to Vienna Pride, and it goes like this: "Kondome, Spirale, Linksradikale!" "Spirale, Kondome, Linksautonome" meaning "Condoms, IUD, radical left!" "IUD, condoms, autonomous left!" :blobcatgiggle:

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