Last weekend, a swarm of pickets converged on Tesla showrooms in dozens of cities across the U.S. I joined one on Saturday in San Francisco, and then a larger one on Monday. Since then, many more pickets have sprung up, with more being planned. It’s all under the loosely organized banner of “#TeslaTakedown.” And since there are no leaders or spokespeople, I can only say what drew me to join: the desire to declare, as my protest sign read, that “Musk is a Nazi.”
To start with, we need to name our enemy, without pulling punches: We are struggling against a fascist coup mounted by the Trump-Musk-Vance regime. We are not alone in this global struggle against fascism, or in facing the two existential threats it poses of nuclear omnicide and climate change.
An essential element of nonviolent resistance — particularly in cases of coups and authoritarian power grabs — is the withdrawal of cooperation. Coup-plotters, coup-makers and coup-profiteers are vulnerable to people power, and right now the unelected Musk is the most vulnerable.
Trump and Musk may deny it, but their actions and values are fascist. Trump delegated power to Musk to carry out the ongoing coup, and relied on Project 2025 to script it and put the orders in front of him to sign. But it’s Musk and his minions who have done most of the dirty work, and Musk who owns this coup in all its increasingly gory details. Musk needs to be held accountable — but first, he needs to be stopped.
I’m surprised there hasn’t been more vandalism of the supercharger network. It seems like very vulnerable infrastructure that can be disabled with a set of $25 bolt cutters.
it might be happening and just flying under the radar, honestly. someone was arrested earlier this month for trying to firebomb a Tesla dealership, and i’m going to assume this is not an isolated sentiment
as a matter of fact: i came across a vandalized charger on Tumblr just now, so it does appear to be happening in at least isolated cases
I’m torn on this one. Unfortunately, the Telsa charger plug format has essentially become the standard for EVs. Either your EV car uses it, or you carry around a converter, so that you can use a large chunk of non-Telsa (or Telsa) charging stations. So, vandalizing charging stations makes the already hard-to-find EV chargers even more scarce.
I think it’s more productive to vandalize advertisements for Telsa.
I don’t think a ton of vehicles outside of Tesla have started using J3400. AFAIK those were all planned in upcoming model years, so this shouldn’t have any real impact on infrastructure outside Tesla. Plus superchargers are only open to a couple non-Tesla brands currently
Good! Thanks for sharing these. Looks like this one is locked behind a login screen, so here’s a screenshot for anyone who wants it:
This is remarkably vague. What point are they trying to get across?
I think there are a couple factors reducing that. In spots where it would be effective, the superchargers are busy. Lots of eyes, and often out in a very open lot. I also don’t know if they turned out to be a huge source of revenue when compared to car sales. Musk fired a lot of the Supercharger team and dropped some planned stations when NACS became a standard maintained by the SAE (now called J3400). That signals to me he lost interest and it wasn’t making enough money for him care. Could be wrong on that last one, though