
She went to the posters, they started to appear throughout London in the last two months.
On the side of the bus stop in East London, one of them shows Elona Musk, the richest man in the world, who was coming out of the Tesla roof with a hand pointed upwards greets. “It goes from 0 to 1939 in 3 seconds,” the ad writes. “Tesla. Swastiar.”
Another ridiculed ad makes Mr. Musk and President Trump in front of the Red Tesla with the words: “Now with a white power steering.” In northern London, the fake movie Bilboard is full: “Fast and Führer”, with a picture of Mr. Musk who welcomed Tesla with the Doga license plate, a reference to the federal agency that has calculated the budget currently leading on behalf of Mr. Trump.
“Parental guideline,” warns Bilbord, set by a group that invites themselves to hate Elon. “Tesla’s executive director is the extreme right activist. Don’t give him his money.”
Through the British capital and in several European cities, the job with the signature of Mr. Musk has become the target of the same kind of political anger that has encouraged vandalism Tesla cars in the United States, and sometimes a violent protest in his MPs.
There was some cases rude protests and vandalism in Europe. But much of the feelings against the muse has taken on a form of political satire, a kind that has flourished in Britain in Britain 18th century.
Immediately beyond Berlin, a group named Center for Political Beauty used great strength lights to project the word “Heil” to the side of the Tesla factory, so she read “Heil Tesla”, along with Mr. Musk’s painting Greeting during speech in Washington. In Italy, Street Art shows Elona Male removing the mask to show Adolf Hitler’s face below. The words “Elon Mask” appear above the picture.
“There was never such a target,” said John Gorenfeld, a software engineer who helped launch a London group called “Takedown Tesla.” The group has organized protests of several dozen people in the last few weeks. They keep posters on highways say “Honk if you hate Elon.” And they wrote a bumper sticker for Tesla owners with phrases like “Do not make the same mistake” and “model before 2020”.
“No one who is so rich and powerful has acted incredible,” Mr. Gorenfeld said. “There is something camping and funny in the male toxicity brand. And it opens up the right mockery.”
In Europe, Mr. Musk is not only a distant example of American wealth and power. Over the past year he became a frequent political madral, often on behalf of the name extremely right causes On X, his social media platform, where he has 218 million followers.
In Britain, Mr. Musk is known for sharing disinformation about scandal with a child and Calling to Prime Minister Keir Starmer to be in prison. He called on to release Tommy Robinson, the far right, antimigrant agitator Who is in prison Contempt of court. And criticized the seven -year sentence a neo -Nazi And he participated in the riots against immigrants last summer.
Small groups against muse that have emerged throughout Europe have the same basic goal: the price of shares and selling Tanka Telle as a way to send a message to Mr. Male and other super -rich people who are considering promoting the ultimate right policy around the world. Some groups refused to interview about their actions, citing concerns about becoming the target of Mr. Musk on social media. But others were more open to their goals.
“The point of this is to show the male and other billionaires that they are vulnerable and cannot act unpunished,” said Ben Stewart, founder of a British satirical activist group called the host, who worked with the Political Beauty Center to project the image of Mr. Musk at the Berlin factory. “We need to use global public opinion to withdraw.”
Organizers think it does. The price of Teslina’s shares almost halved from its high in December, at about the same time when Mr. Musk began his high role by overseeing the shooting of Government workers and reducing the budgets of the Federal Agency. This week Tesla reported on 13 percent a fall in sales Compared to a year ago.
“What they try to do is make massive pressure on me, and Tesla, I guess you know, don’t know, stop doing it,” Mr. Musk said last week in Wisconsin where he was a campaign for the candidate of the Supreme Court of the State.
Yet, he added to Skrrr, shrugging, “In the long run, I think Tesla Stock will be fine, so maybe it’s an opportunity to buy.”
Protesters who talked about their goals said that they want to cause the influence of Mr. Musk without resorting to vandalism that The billionaire called In the United States as “coordinated violence against peaceful society.”
Theodora Sutcliffe, a London resident who helped organize Tesla abolition, said that none of the people she works with participated in violence. Instead, they sought to find other ways to attract public attention.
At one of their protests, a wavy 20 -foot balloon man, who vaguely resembled Mr. Male, greeted himself in the air. In other moments, Mrs. Sutcliffe and her fellow protesters left the flyers on the Tesla car windshield.
“Once upon a time, Teslas was cool,” says one flyer. “Now, unfortunately, this is not the case. Tesla ride and the use of Tesline Chargers means that you acquire an Elona male, a man who promotes climate denials and drug addicts of fossil fuels.”
“If you want to be viral in the UK, I think you have to be smart,” Mrs. Sutcliffe said. “That’s normal our sense of humor.”
The efforts against the male in Berlin were guided by Philipp Ruch, the artistic director of the Political Beauty Center, a German activist group. In an interview, he said that much of the anger on Mr. Musk in Germany stems from a billionaire Support the far right side of the countryalternative to Germany.
“The first day when the administration enters, he does Hitler’s greeting,” Mr. Ruch said. “It’s something we couldn’t tolerate, politically and artistically.”
Mr. Ruch performs many of his protests by “copying” one picture with another. In Tesla, he used the lights to override his words and pictures of Mr. Musk to create a new artistic creation. (He said the police are now investigating his efforts, which were visible about an hour.) The pictures of the building were widely arranged on social media.
And other efforts became viral.
There are exhausters of the car on the air “musk-b-gone” who promise to cover the “stench of fascism”. And Mr. Musk and Mr. Trump’s cardboard cuts, thanking Tesla owners for their support when they charged their cars on the superchanger plots.
“There are some people who come to the male as if he were some kind of passive Trump agent and that’s really, this is just another way to come to Trump,” said Ms. Sutcliffe. “There are other people who perceive men as someone who is a unique kind of threat that we really have not seen in terms of his economic control and control over the information space.”