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Global anti-Elon Musk protests planned at nearly 200 Tesla showroom locations

www.theguardian.com

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.

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So what exactly are the protestors doing to the Tesla workers that you find so abhorrent?
- Literal terrorism
  
  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.

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