{"id":17089,"date":"2025-02-19T12:34:53","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T12:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/?p=17089"},"modified":"2025-02-19T12:34:54","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T12:34:54","slug":"tesla-targeted-with-worldwide-protests-vandalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/?p=17089","title":{"rendered":"Tesla Targeted With Worldwide Protests, Vandalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"incArticle\">\n<p>Around the globe, people indignant at Elon Musk&#8217;s new flip as an unelected White Home wrecker are taking it out on Tesla.<\/p>\n<p>From Nazi allusions spraypainted on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/tesla-elon-musk-showroom-the-hague-swastika-anti-nazi-graffiti\/\" class=\"underline hover:text-futurism hover:no-underline transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out\" style=\"text-decoration-color:blue\">Tesla showroom in The Hague<\/a> and the phrase &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/politicalbeauty\/status\/1882166036180631682\" class=\"underline hover:text-futurism hover:no-underline transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out\" style=\"text-decoration-color:blue\">Heil<\/a>&#8221; projected onto the German Gigafactory to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/colorado\/news\/tesla-dealership-cybertrucks-spray-painted-loveland-colorado-police-investigate-vandalism\/\" class=\"underline hover:text-futurism hover:no-underline transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out\" style=\"text-decoration-color:blue\">busted windshields<\/a> and a <a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/2025\/02\/10\/tesla-stores-are-targeted-by-vandals-and-arsonists-fbi-gets-involved\/\" class=\"underline hover:text-futurism hover:no-underline transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out\" style=\"text-decoration-color:blue\">failed arson attempt<\/a> at a dealership in Colorado, these against Musk&#8217;s more and more far proper politics are <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/tesla-employees-musk-fears\" class=\"underline hover:text-futurism hover:no-underline transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out\" style=\"text-decoration-color:blue\">taking it out on his electric vehicle company<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Over the weekend, protesters organizing underneath the social media hashtags &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/actionnetwork.org\/event_campaigns\/teslatakedown\" class=\"underline hover:text-futurism hover:no-underline transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out\" style=\"text-decoration-color:blue\">#TeslaTakedown<\/a>&#8221; and &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ElectrekCo\/status\/1890068094716182722\" class=\"underline hover:text-futurism hover:no-underline transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out\" style=\"text-decoration-color:blue\">#TeslaTakeover<\/a>&#8221; have begun planning \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/cars\/2025\/02\/protesters-demonstrate-outside-tesla-showrooms-in-us\/\" class=\"underline hover:text-futurism hover:no-underline transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out\" style=\"text-decoration-color:blue\">and enacting<\/a> \u2014 demonstrations in opposition to the billionaire head of the Division of Authorities Effectivity (DOGE) as he continues to <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/government-fires-nuclear-specialists-hires-back\" class=\"underline hover:text-futurism hover:no-underline transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out\" style=\"text-decoration-color:blue\">massively disrupt the American government<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At a <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7news.com\/post\/angry-demonstrators-protest-elon-musk-outside-san-francisco-tesla-showroom\/15923761\/\" class=\"underline hover:text-futurism hover:no-underline transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out\" style=\"text-decoration-color:blue\">San Francisco Tesla showroom<\/a>, as an example, staff had been unable to depart whereas a whole lot of individuals surrounded it in protest over President&#8217;s Day weekend. Whereas individuals exterior chanted slogans like &#8220;Resist the oligarchy&#8221; and &#8220;Deport Musk,&#8221; the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sfstandard.com\/2025\/02\/17\/musk-trump-protest-tesla-showroom\/\" class=\"underline hover:text-futurism hover:no-underline transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out\" style=\"text-decoration-color:blue\"><em>San Francisco Standard<\/em> reports<\/a>, somebody within the second-floor workplace above the dealership held up an indication within the window that mentioned &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/d_feldman\/status\/1891669935434211354\" class=\"underline hover:text-futurism hover:no-underline transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out\" style=\"text-decoration-color:blue\">We Hate Him Too<\/a>&#8221; \u2014 and it stays unclear whether or not that individual labored for Tesla, or for an additional firm renting the house above the showroom.<\/p>\n<p>Jeff Grubler, a longtime activist who has been <a href=\"https:\/\/badtastegoodcause.com\/about\" class=\"underline hover:text-futurism hover:no-underline transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out\" style=\"text-decoration-color:blue\">crusading against Donald Trump for years<\/a>, wore a Musk masks and repeatedly carried out a &#8220;Sieg Heil&#8221; salute on the SF Tesla protest whereas carrying a pink armband with the &#8220;X&#8221; brand \u2014 a reference not solely to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TheOnion\/status\/1882503660367691783\" class=\"underline hover:text-futurism hover:no-underline transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out\" style=\"text-decoration-color:blue\">Nazi symbolism<\/a>, but in addition to Musk&#8217;s personal &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/jewish-leaders-boycott-elon-musk-nazi-salute\" class=\"underline hover:text-futurism hover:no-underline transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out\" style=\"text-decoration-color:blue\">Roman salute<\/a>&#8221; final month.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Calling Elon Musk a Nazi isn&#8217;t a stretch,&#8221; Grubler advised the\u00a0<em>SF Customary<\/em>. &#8220;He made two Nazi salutes, and there\u2019s a coup happening.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Although teams just like the progressive coalition Indivisible are <a href=\"https:\/\/indivisible.org\/muskorus\" class=\"underline hover:text-futurism hover:no-underline transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out\" style=\"text-decoration-color:blue\">imploring protesters to remain peaceful<\/a>, others aren&#8217;t above damaging some property.<\/p>\n<p>Additional north, as an example, a daring vandal spray-painted the phrase &#8220;Nazi&#8221; on a person&#8217;s Tesla in Portland whereas the proprietor and his son had been watching the Tremendous Bowl, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kgw.com\/article\/news\/local\/video-captures-vandal-spray-painting-nazi-portland-tesla\/283-f758c0ce-cfbf-4c80-9827-5491f37a601c\" class=\"underline hover:text-futurism hover:no-underline transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out\" style=\"text-decoration-color:blue\">local broadcaster\u00a0<em>KGW8<\/em> reported.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That occurred in broad daylight,&#8221; that man, Tim Tees, advised the information outlet. &#8220;I imply, he was brazen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Just like the unidentified hater above that San Francisco Tesla showroom, Tees mentioned that he, too, isn&#8217;t a fan of the billionaire.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I get the persons are upset about Elon,&#8221; the Portlander advised the native information outlet. &#8220;I am upset about Elon, you understand.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After shelling out to get the Nazi vandalism scrubbed, Tees took on his personal small act of protest \u2014 buying a bumper sticker that claims &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/embarrassed-teslas-drivers-stickers\" class=\"underline hover:text-futurism hover:no-underline transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out\" style=\"text-decoration-color:blue\">I bought this before Elon went crazy<\/a>,&#8221; which he plans to use later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Extra on anti-Musk aktion:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/state-department-insider-elon-nuclear-arsenal\" class=\"underline hover:text-futurism hover:no-underline transition-all duration-200 ease-in-out\" style=\"text-decoration-color:blue\"><em>State Department Insider on Elon Musk Accessing Nuclear Weapons: \u201cIf You Make Something Idiot-Proof, the World Will Build a Better Idiot\u201d<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/tesla-targeted-protests-vandalism\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Around the globe, people indignant at Elon Musk&#8217;s new flip as an unelected White Home wrecker are taking it out on Tesla. From Nazi allusions spraypainted on a Tesla showroom in The Hague and the phrase &#8220;Heil&#8221; projected onto the German Gigafactory to busted windshields and a failed arson attempt at a dealership in Colorado, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17091,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3596,4046,526,12285,9888],"class_list":["post-17089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech","tag-protests","tag-targeted","tag-tesla","tag-vandalism","tag-worldwide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17089\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thisbiginfluence.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}