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“Sculptor Chavis Mármol has never owned a car, but that’s never inhibited his drive. Earlier this month, the 42-year-old Mexico City-based artist (who travels largely by bicycle) dropped a nine-ton replica of an Olmec head onto the roof of a blue Tesla Model 3 in a crushing display posted to Instagram on March 11. Mármol told Hyperallergic that his intention was “to satirize the Tesla brand and its creator.””

youtube.com/watch?v=g7KU0c26Ah

Oh Lord, we should have known if we didn't. The Wankpanzer is basically an Apartheid era enforcement truck, except with sheet metal falling off.

#Musk and his fans aren't even proper fascists, they're parodies of the fascists they *want* to be. 🤦🏼‍♀️

The intention should be taken completely seriously, and we should also laugh in their faces.

Onward, #TeslaTakedown!

#tesla #cybertruck #clustertruck
slate.com/news-and-politics/20

Slate · We’re Scholars Who Study Africa. The Cybertruck Looks Kind of Familiar.By Vivian Chenxue Lu

"Decades later, the Tesla Cybertruck, lately a prime target for protesters demonstrating their dislike of CEO Elon Musk, blurs the boundaries between the battlefield and the public street. When Tesla released the Cybertruck in 2023, its dramatic style polarized the public. Popular theories abounded about its unusual look. Many speculated that its inspiration had come from spaceships of science fiction. In discussing the car’s aesthetic early on, Musk referenced cyberpunk and Blade Runner, a film that features sleek metallic vehicles, though with rounded silhouettes designed for aerodynamic speed. He’s also used the phrase “The future should look like the future”—a reference, his biographer Walter Isaacson said, to a question his son Saxon asked him once: “Why doesn’t the future look like the future?”

Whether or not this was intentional, the Cybertruck’s harsh, sharp edges remind us, instead, of something from the past: the larger armored personnel vehicles that patrolled streets throughout Musk’s youth in apartheid South Africa. In the 1980s, the Casspir proliferated across the country, moving from the battlefield and onto the streets. Initially improvised as a way to circumvent international sanctions against the apartheid government, the Casspir mine-resistant ambush protected vehicle was invented and produced domestically. It was a rugged all-terrain vehicle intended to withstand gunfire and mine explosions. It could drive up to 60 mph and be modified to add artillery functions.

Eventually, the Casspir was deployed to patrol townships, the residential neighborhoods where many Black South Africans lived (...) By the 1990s, the Casspir had become an iconic global symbol of apartheid oppression."

slate.com/news-and-politics/20

Slate · We’re Scholars Who Study Africa. The Cybertruck Looks Kind of Familiar.By Vivian Chenxue Lu

"Là, clairement c'est fini" : #Tesla est rejeté par les entreprises #françaises à cause d'Elon #Musk

Franceinfo est allé à la rencontre des professionnels qui refusent de constituer leur flotte de véhicules électriques avec des Tesla. En #Europe, de plus en plus d’autocollants apparaissent sur les modèles de la marque et ils sont limpides : "J'ai acheté cette voiture avant qu'#ElonMusk ne devienne fou".
lesnumeriques.com/voiture-elec

Les Numériques · "Là, clairement c'est fini" : Tesla est rejeté par les entreprises françaises à cause d'Elon MuskBy Nassim Chentouf

My favourite proposed demonstration against Musk & Tesla is this:

Enter a Tesla dealership, engage the dealer(s) in an extended discussion of the car (& EVs more generally, perhaps), maybe even take the car for a test drive;

then after wasting an hour or so politely inform them that you're going away to think about it;

Rinse and repeat;

Tie them up in a way they can hardly complain about, but stops them actually selling any cars....

Sounds like a good weekend project?