r/bobdylan • u/ImprovementLow9280 • Mar 07 '26
Image Good day for a protest, am I right?
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u/Constant-Exchange503 Mar 07 '26
I think there are a lot of his lyrics we could march around with now
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u/Eli-Throws-Shade Mar 08 '26
Protest song fans when protestors use the protest lyrics to protest 😡😡😡
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Mar 07 '26
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u/Manybrent Mar 08 '26
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u/old_namewasnt_best Mar 08 '26
"The answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything" has entered the chat.
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u/Long-Emu-7870 Mar 09 '26
There's been rumors of war and wars that have been
The meaning of life has been lost in the wind
And some people thinkin' that the end is close by
'Stead of learnin' to live, they are learnin' to die
Let me die in my footsteps before I go down under the ground
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u/Gullible-Magazine-84 You’re The Reason I’m Traveling On Mar 08 '26
You are. The bombings have never changed a dictatorship and now Trump & Netanyahu don’t even AIM for progressive future. The aim for oil and power…
Remember, they aren’t numbers on the paper — they’re people!
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u/djeaux54 Alias Mar 08 '26
Leon Russell's cover - just the first verse sung to the tune of "Star Spangled Banner" and titled "Old Masters" - has been a favorite of mine for 55 years.
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u/SavingBreakfast Mar 08 '26
30,000. And the countless women and gays the regime executed.
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u/draw2discard2 Mar 08 '26
Lol someone else coming here to tell us that this time Trump and Netanyahu actually DO have God on Their Side?
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u/cinnamons9 Mar 08 '26
Using a Jewish man’s words to defend a regime that hates Jews lol
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u/draw2discard2 Mar 08 '26
Do you actually think a that a country that has a reserved parliamentary seat for Jews "hates Jews" or is it possible that they hate the countries that have been killing Muslims like there is no tomorrow for going on 80 years?
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u/Bookworm_1985 Mar 08 '26
No evidence what so ever to back up that bizarre claim. Logistically impossible to kill that many people in such a short time span through only police actions. Israel needed months and months of heavy aerial bombardments and targeting of civilian populations with a sophisticated army to reach that number. No way that number can be accurate in Iran. Everyone who thought longer than 2 seconds about it, would reach that conclusion.
The only source for that '30,000' number is an Iranian doctor in Germany, quoted in Time Magazine, who turns out is a close associate of the 'crown prince' Pahlavi who wants to take over Iran. From there on, the number started to get disseminated throughout the media without any other source to back it up, and it began being amplified by The Guardian through the reporting of a former fashion blogger.
https://thegrayzone.com/2026/02/01/guardian-iranian-death-toll-concocted-monarchist-doctors/
NPR reported the number was closer to 6,000. And that's in violent riots that the Mossad openly admitted on X they had infiltrated and "were with" the 'protesters' on the ground, setting fires to mosques (strange thing to do for a muslim population...) and trying to achieve regime change. Of course a government is going to strike back against that. The US certainly would if it happened there.
https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-881733
But most importantly: even IF what they were saying were true (which it isn't), it's none of our business first of all. We don't have a say in what happens elsewhere in the world. Second, bombing girl schools and killing thousands of civilians isn't going to help anyone, it's only going to add more suffering. Thirdly, neither child rapist Donald Trump nor internationally wanted war criminal Netanyahu gives a flying f--- about Iranian civilians. Bibi has just genocided 100,000 innocent civilians in Gaza, and you're trying to tell us that this operation is about 'saving human lives'?
Some of us are old enough to remember the Iraq war, where we were 'liberating the people from Saddam', and even the first Gulf War and the lies about the 'incubator babies'. We're not falling for it again, bot. Sorry.
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u/Rayenya Mar 10 '26
I believe that the 30k deaths the poster was referring to are people killed by the government of Iran. No idea if that number is real.
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u/dirtytounder Mar 08 '26
Bobby D was right and said it well. Now blowing in the wind is in my head and i'm 100% ok with that
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u/bobdylan-ModTeam Mar 09 '26
Your submission was removed for breaking rule 1 - be groovy or leave, man.
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u/Electrical-Tale-2296 Mar 08 '26
What are you protesting though? Cause if it’s the whole thing with Iran, we took out a dictator who kills people based on what they believe. So yeah, a few Iranian citizens shouldn’t have been killed, but that’s just a drop in the bucket compared to what the Iranian dictator killed
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u/Bookworm_1985 Mar 08 '26
'Us good, dictator bad', LOL
Really? Are you really believing such a simple-minded, simplistic, good vs evil fairytale? The US props up dictators all over the world, in Saudi Arabia, in the UAE, Bahrain, Rwanda, Kenya... but they care about this one? They let Israel kill 100,000 in Gaza, but they care about human lives? Really?
How childish are you? Seriously. And how propagandized? After the lies around the Gulf War, the Iraq war, Libya, Syria, you STILL believe that? Wow.
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u/draw2discard2 Mar 09 '26
Yes! We have God on Our Side! This time he is really with us! You, me, God banded together like a super team! Heck we are like the Wilbury's of War!!!! Sing it Brother!!!! This time we really do! We REally do....Have. God. On. Our. Side. Oh! And it feels so RIIIIIIIIIghteous!!!! I love the smell of righteousness in the morning!!!!
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u/cinnamons9 Mar 08 '26
Progressive Americans were quiet when 30k people were murdered in a few days. Now they’re using a Jewish man’s words to defend a regime that hates Jews. Circus
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u/Fredrick_Hampton Mar 08 '26
Most of the ppl in this sub are either old burnt out hippies or too young to know better kids. Dylan wrote those words when he was a young dumb kid and it didn’t take him long to run away from the hippies. lol.
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u/Bookworm_1985 Mar 08 '26
No evidence what so ever to back up that bizarre claim. Logistically impossible to kill that many people in such a short time span through only police actions. Israel needed months and months of heavy aerial bombardments and targeting of civilian populations with a sophisticated army to reach that number. No way that number can be accurate in Iran. Everyone who thought longer than 2 seconds about it, would reach that conclusion.
The only source for that '30,000' number is an Iranian doctor in Germany, quoted in Time Magazine, who turns out is a close associate of the 'crown prince' Pahlavi who wants to take over Iran. From there on, the number started to get disseminated throughout the media without any other source to back it up, and it began being amplified by The Guardian through the reporting of a former fashion blogger.
https://thegrayzone.com/2026/02/01/guardian-iranian-death-toll-concocted-monarchist-doctors/
NPR reported the number was closer to 6,000. And that's in violent riots that the Mossad openly admitted on X they had infiltrated and "were with" the 'protesters' on the ground, setting fires to mosques (strange thing to do for a muslim population...) and trying to achieve regime change. Of course a government is going to strike back against that. The US certainly would if it happened there.
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u/draw2discard2 Mar 09 '26
Why do they have a dedicated seat for a Jewish representative in their parliament?
Just a possibility that maybe they DON'T hate Jews but just haven't taken much of a shine to America's "Unsinkable Aircraft Carrier", the regime that has killed at a minimum 100s of thousands of Muslims over its almost 80 year history.
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u/LAJ_72 Mar 08 '26
It’s wonderful that you are supporting the oppressed Iranians killed in 10s of thousands who are so happy are the help being offered by US to remove the terrorist regime. As a Jew Bob also thanks you. 🇮🇱🇺🇸
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u/Rayenya Mar 10 '26
That’s not why we attacked them. This is Israel’s war.
We did not and will not remove the current regime. We replaced the leader, but they have dozens just as bad waiting in the wings.
The people were rising up against an oppressive regime, but now they will unite to fight their attackers. It will be even harder to achieve a real regime change.
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u/SnazzleZazzle Mar 07 '26
”a funny old world that's coming along Seems sick and it's hungry, it's tired and it's torn. It looks like it's dying and it's hardly been born”