Hundreds of protests at Tesla showrooms are planned across the US and internationally on Saturday. Organizers have dubbed it Tesla Takedown’s Global Day of Action, the latest and largest in a series of demonstrations that began shortly after Donald Trump was inaugurated. Organizers say the rallies will take place in front of more than 200 Tesla locations worldwide, including nearly 50 in California alone.
The protesters’ goal is to send a message to the Trump administration that they’re against what the Tesla CEO, Elon Musk, is doing with the US federal government – laying off thousands of workers, cutting department budgets, giving fascist salutes and getting rid of entire agencies.
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Tesla Takedown describes itself as a decentralized grassroots movement that will “protest Tesla for as long as Elon Musk continues to shred public services”. The group says on its organizing page that Musk is “destroying our democracy using the fortune he built at Tesla” and so, in turn, they are “taking action at Tesla”. Local organizers are planning their own demonstrations rather than coordinating with one national group.
Bring your Molotov cocktails
Please don’t joke about stuff that could get people in trouble
Appreciate the sentiment, but let’s be clear here: whether or not people are getting into trouble is no longer correlated to them being innocent, nice or lawful.
Quite the impressive number here.
I don’t know what this guy expected. incredible really
I’m Spartacus
That’ll show those minimum wage slaves.
lol i mean yeah, but people want to feel like they are doing SOMETHING. Annoying tesla dealerships at worst succeeds at annoying a few dealership owners and a bunch of dealership employees, some of which also likely hate elon at this point, lets be real.
low cost, low reward, or whatever, but its about making noise and keeping it in the news. Which shit goes on long enough sometimes the mainstream media gets swayed shortly before they start saying property damage is maybe worse than murder.
This IS something. People can dismiss this as useless performative nonsense, but it is working. The stock bubble has popped, so the stock has lost over half its value, which has cost MuskRat a good portion of his fortune, and has also famaged the portfolios of many Sociopathic Oligarchs. The company image has cratered, and instead of feeling cool and superior in their Tesla, owners are uncomfortable, and drawing negative personal attention, just for driving it. They are also at risk for vandalism, or even destruction. New sales have plunged in America, and are almost non-existent anywhere else. Recovery looks VERY far away for Tesla, and bankruptcy actually looks more likely.
So The MuskRat is starting to panic about losing his most consistent income stream, and the administration seems to be noticing that citizens are organizing in groups large enough to start causing actual problems in the economy. Even other nations have joined. At this point, they think think they can win with threats, but that’s only making the opposition bolder.
Soon, the administration will declare an American citizen who vandalized a Tesla to be a Terrorist, and disappear them to the El Salvador torture prison. Then the Tesla protests will grow huge, and spread wider.
The administration is looking to incite violence at a major protest so they can declare Martial Law and suspend elections before the 2026 midterms. They can’t take a chance on the Dems flipping one or both chambers of Congress, and taking control of investigatory committees and legislation.
The Tesla protests will be the perfect opportunity for their nefarious plan. They won’t do it now, they’ll wait until next summer, just before the election, and let the protests grow. But I could be wrong. If you protest, stay alert, keep your head on a swivel, and have an escape route planned in case of serious trouble.
I just think it’s funny how being kind to front line workers, because they aren’t the people being assholes, is one of the most common memes on social media. Now though, because people are caught up in the hype, they’ve completely forgotten their own ideals and lash out at those they have previously declared to be their friends.
This is the kind of behaviour that leads to religion, because having an actual hard coded set of rules gives the victim the ability to point to something physical to say “hey, we’re supposed to be your friends jackasses” when these sorts of things happen.
So what exactly are the protestors doing to the Tesla workers that you find so abhorrent?
The vast, vast, vast majority of protestors are not engaging in any acts that could be considered terrorism. The OP linked article is about peaceful protests. Your parent comment was “that’ll show the minimum wage slaves.”
So should no one protest peacefully because a handful of people have committed acts of violence?
And how are the employees expected to trust that a rowdy mob outside doesn’t have someone packing a few moltovs? It’s something that is actually happening right now. Use your damn brains and stop being pawns. If you really care so much about the movement then put a little more effort into being much more effective without terrorizing random strangers.
See, the problem is that your words are what we’ve heard every single time someone wants to be slightly less fascist in this country for the past 2 decades. If you’d rather concern troll than actually affect change, then fuck off and wait for ICE to come grab you.
I suppose that’s the risk we all run in Trumps America.
Perhaps if the leaders at the very top weren’t sociopaths who provoke critics, scapegoat immigrants and encourage the sale of firearms to every American, then we could all be living in a peaceful nation without the fear of a Molotov crashing through the window of a Tesla dealership at any given time.
