WTF is it with anti-vaxers and Bob Dylan avatars?

[varkam]

In my time here, I have seen no fewer than four ant-vaxx loons with Bob Dylan avatars. What up with dat?

[mr blur]

1. "Don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows"

or something like that, I suspect. Maybe they just have great taste in music.

[Orrex]

2. 'Better stay away from those that carry around a firehose'

Years back I read an analysis of the lyrics that suggested that this was a veiled reference to needles as well as a clear reference to anti-riot tactics.

[moggie]

3. Idiot Wind

Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your mouth,
Blowing down the backroads heading south.
Idiot wind, blowing every time you move your teeth,
You're an idiot, babe.
It's a wonder that you still know how to breathe.

[onager]

15. Right back atcha with...Talkin' DU Paranoid Blues

Selections from a very old Dylan song lampooning the RIGHT wing. A few minor changes and it would fit right into some DU threads. To see all the lyrics, just Google "Talkin' John Birch Society Paranoid Blues."

For baffled younger/furrin readers--George Lincoln Rockwell founded the American Nazi Party. He was gunned down by one of his own disciples outside a Maryland laundromat:

...Well, I wus sittin' home alone an' started to sweat,
Figured they wus in my T.V. set.
Peeked behind the picture frame,
Got a shock from my feet, right up to my brain.
Them Reds caused it!
I know they did. Them hard-core ones.

Well, I quit my job so I could work alone,
Then I changed my name to Sherlock Holmes.
Followed some clues from my detective bag
And discovered they was RED stripes on the American flag!
That ol' Betty Ross...

Well, I investigated all the books in the library,
Ninety percent of 'em gotta be burned away.
I investigated all the people that I knowed,
Ninety-eight percent of them gotta go.
The other two percent are fellow Birchers...just like me.

Now Eisenhower, he's a Russian spy,
Lincoln, Jefferson and that Roosevelt guy.
To my knowledge there's just one man
That's really a true American: George Lincoln Rockwell.
I know for a fact he hates Commies cause he picketed the movie "Exodus."

Well, I fin'ly started thinkin' straight
When I run outa things to investigate.
Couldn't imagine doin' anything else,
So now I'm sittin' home investigatin' myself!
Hope I don't find out anything!

[salvorhardin]

4. It's the same as when all the CTers sported Guy Fawkes/V avatars

Meaningless symbolism. They imbue the symbol with special meaning and wear it like a mask thinking they take on the attributes of the symbol. It's not much different than flag pins and yellow ribbon magnets on cars. I think there's a sociological term for it, but I'm not recalling it at the moment. All in all, it's the dumbest expression of identity politics.

[Deep13]

8. Um, "CTers?"

What's that?

[salvorhardin]

9. CTers = Conspiracy Theorizers

Also, CTists = Conspiracy Theorists.

[trotsky]

5. Gosh I hope their avatars DON'T change.

Because it seems like name-change fever has infected the woos. I can't keep them straight anymore.

[TZ]

6. *cough*

:P

[trotsky]

7. I wasn't going to say anything... ;-)

But at least your change is simple - and fellow "S"keptics such as Ian and David sure made it easy to keep their new names straight.

[beam me up scottie]

10. I've started a list if anyone's interested.

I thought amnesty was only for people who had politically extinct names?

[TZ]

11. Well thats who it was intended for but anybody who wants to can

I can't really disclose but I had a good reason for my change.

[beam me up scottie]

13. Oh, yours is easy.

And it suits you. :)

[Pale Blue Dot]

12. I changed my name to something that was closer to my skeptical persona.

So far I like it.

[trotsky]

14. That IS a good one.

Nice choice.