Slim posters have begun to appear throughout London in the last two months.
On the side of the bus stop in East London, one of them shows that Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, based on the roof of Tesla with his hand heading up in direct greeting. “It goes from 0 to 1939 in 3 seconds,” the ad reads. “Tesla. Swasticar.”
Another fake ad shows Mr. Musk and President Trump before Red Tesla, saying “Now with a white power steering.” In northern London, the fake film Billboard Blares: “Fast and Führer”, with a picture of Mr. Musk, greeting next to Tesla with the DOGE brand, a reference to the federal agency, which currently leads Mr. Trump.
“Parental leadership,” warns Billboard, built by a group called Muska. “Tesla’s CEO is an extreme right -wing activist. Don’t give him your money.”
Throughout the British capital and several European cities, the signing business of Mr. Musk has become the goal of the same kind of political anger that supported Vandalism of Tesla cars in the United States and sometimes violent protests for its trade representation.
Some Examples Unfortunate protests and vandalism in Europe. But a lot of the anti-mummy sentiment is in the form of a political satire that has flourished in Britain at least since then 18th century.
Just before Berlin, a group called Center for Political Beauty used high -performance lights to project the word “Heil” to the Tesla factory, so she read “Heil Tesla”, along with a picture of Mr. Musk, who during a speech in Washington. In Italy, Street Art, Elon Musk recounts to take off the mask to show Adolf Hitler’s face under her. The words “Elon mask” appear above the picture.
“It has never been such a goal,” said John Gorenfeld, a software engineer who helped set up a London group called “Tamedown Tesla”. The group has organized protests of several dozen people in the last few weeks. Holds posters along the highways that say, “Honk if you hate Elon.” And they printed stickers on the bumpers for Tesla owners with phrases as “Don’t make the same mistake” and “Model before 2020”.
“No one who is so rich and powerful was so incredibly behaved,” said Mr. Gorenfeld. “There is something about Campy and ridiculous about the Muska toxicity brand. And it opens the real space to ridicule.”
In Europe, Mr Musk is not just a remote example of American wealth and power. Over the last year, he has become a frequent political meddler, which often weighs on behalf of the extreme right -wing causes on his social media platform, where he has 218 million followers.
In Britain, Mr Musk is known to share the disinformation of the rape scandal of the child and calls for imprisonment of Prime Minister Keir Starmer. He called for Tommy Robinson, a extreme right-wing, anti-immigrant agitate, who is in prison for contempt for a court. And he criticized the seven -year punishment of a neo -Nazi, who stimulated last summer and participated in the immigrant unrest.
Small groups against the Musks that appeared in Europe have the same basic goal: the price and sales of shares Tesla as a way to send a message to Mr. Muska and other super wealthy people who are considering promoting far -right politics around the world. Some groups refused to be interviewed about their actions and quoted concerns that Mr. Musk’s anger on social media was the goal of the anger. But others were more open about their goals.
“The purpose of this is to show Muska and other billionaires that they are vulnerable and cannot act with impunity,” said Ben Stewart, founder of the British satirical activist group called Dorkeys, who worked with the Center for Political Beauty to screen the image of Mr. Musk in the Berlin factory. “We have to take advantage of global public opinion to push through.”
The organizers think it works. The Tesla stock price has almost decreased since its December in December, at about the same time that Mr Musk began to oversee his highly profile role of shooting government workers and mowing the federal agency budgets. This week, Tesla showed a 13 percent decrease in sales compared to the year.
“Trying to put massive pressure on me and Tesla I think you know, I don’t know, stop doing it,” Mr. Musk said last week in Wisconsin where he led the campaign for the Supreme Court candidate.
Yet he added with his shoulders: “I think long -term shares will be good, so maybe it’s an opportunity to buy.”
Demonstrators who talked about their goals said they wanted to question the influence of Mr. Musk without resorting to vandalism that billionaire called In the United States as “coordinated violence against peace society”.
Theodora Sutcliffe, a London resident who helped organize Takedown Tesla, said that none of the people he was working with would participate in violence. Instead, they tried to find other ways to attract public attention.
On one of their protests, a wavy, 20-foot balloon that vaguely resembled Mr. Muska greeted the air. Other times, Mrs Sutcliffe and her colleagues protesters left leaflets on Tesla’s front slides.
“Once upon a time, Teslas was fine,” says one pilot. “Unfortunately, this is not the case. Tesla management and the use of Tesla Chargers mean that you support Elon Musk, a man who promotes climate denying and fossil fuel.”
“If you want to get a viral in the UK, you have to be smart, I think,” said Mrs. Sutcliffe. “That’s our sense of humor normally.”
The efforts against the Musks in Berlin were led by Philipp Ruch, the artistic director of the Center for Political Beauty, a German activist group. He said in an interview that most of the anger with Mr. Musk in Germany stems from the support of the billionaire of the far -right party of the country, an alternative to Germany.
“The first day of the administration comes, Hitler’s greeting,” said the bustle. “That’s something we couldn’t tolerate, politically and artistically.”
Mr. Ruch performs many of his protests by “rewriting” one picture with another. At Tesla sellers, he used Lights to superior to 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 for about an hour.) Photos of the building were widely spread on social media.
Another effort was also viral.
There are simulated air fresheners called “Musk-B-Gone” that promise to cover the “smell of fascism”. And the cardboard cutouts of Mr. Musk and Mr. Trump thanked Tesla owners for their support when they added cars to the company of the company.
“There are some people who come to Muska, as if there was a passive agent Trump, and that’s really just another way to get to Trump,” said Mrs. Sutcliffe. “There are other people who perceive Muska as someone who is a unique type of threat that we haven’t really seen in terms of his economic control and control of information space.”
