I’m going to an event soon and the last time I was there there were some of those awful street preachers with megaphones shouting bigotry. They’re a nuisance and nobody wants them there, but it’s a public festival and evidentially they’re allowed to be there.

I tried looking online (reddit-logo)and most of the advice was stupid lib shit, ranging from, “Call the cops and tell them they’re violating statute blah blah blah” or, “Just ignore them, you can’t change their minds and engaging just feeds their persecution complex.” Obviously the cops do nothing, I don’t care about changing their minds or what they think I just want to shut them up. But I also don’t want to get arrested and if possible, it’d be nice to avoid disturbing the other people further.

Most likely, I’m just gonna have to endure it, but I thought I’d raise the question for brainstorming bc it feels like a common enough situation that other people will encounter it too. Best I can think is screaming something back at them emilie-shrug

UPDATE: I ended up just wearing a bunch of pride stuff and then they weren’t even there lol

  • Frank [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.net
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    8 months ago

    You can instruments at home, too. Put dry beans in plastic bottles to make rattles! get a heat gun and some pvc pipe and make different kinds of horns. Bang pots and pans. Lots of stuff.

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      8 months ago

      Pretty sure I’ve seen a couple viral drummer vids that was just some twink rigging up a bunch of different-sized buckets and pvc pipes and just thundering away

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        8 months ago

        Sweet! I love that shit. Some of my buddies used to load a bunch of garbage in to the truck of their beater then go have jam sessions in the city park, just absolutely rocking out on jugs and tubs and pots and whatever they could scrounge.