{"id":25425,"date":"2025-04-06T04:01:14","date_gmt":"2025-04-06T04:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=25425"},"modified":"2025-04-06T04:24:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T04:24:32","slug":"0-to-1939-in-3-seconds-why-anti-elon-musk-satire-is-flourishing-in-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=25425","title":{"rendered":"\u20180 to 1939 in 3 seconds\u2019: Why Anti-Elon Musk Satire Is Flourishing in Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Humor and art have been used to mock the powerful in Britain for centuries. Now Elon Musk is on the receiving end.<\/p>\n

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The mischievous posters began appearing all over London in the past two months.<\/p>\n

On the side of an East London bus stop, one of them shows Elon Musk, the world\u2019s richest man, emerging from a Tesla\u2019s roof with his hand pointing upward in a straight-armed salute<\/a>. \u201cGoes from 0 to 1939 in 3 seconds,\u201d the ad reads. \u201cTesla. The Swasticar.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another mock ad shows Mr. Musk and President Trump in front of a red Tesla with the words: \u201cNow With White Power Steering.\u201d In North London, a fake movie billboard blares: \u201cThe Fast and the F\u00fchrer,\u201d with a picture of Mr. Musk saluting beside a Tesla with a DOGE license plate, a reference to the budget-slashing federal agency he currently leads on behalf of Mr. Trump.<\/p>\n

\u201cParental Guidance,\u201d warns the billboard, put up by a group calling themselves Everyone Hates Elon. \u201cTesla\u2019s CEO is a far-right activist. Don\u2019t give him your money.\u201d<\/p>\n

Across the British capital and in several European cities, Mr. Musk\u2019s signature business has become the target of the same kind of political anger that has fueled vandalism<\/a> of Tesla cars in the United States and sometimes violent protests at his dealerships.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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There have been some instances<\/a> of unruly protests and vandalism in Europe. But much of the anti-Musk sentiment has taken the form of political satire, of the kind that has flourished in Britain since at least the 18th century<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Just outside Berlin, a group called the Center for Political Beauty used high-power lights to project the word \u201cHeil\u201d onto the side of a Tesla factory so that it read \u201cHeil Tesla,\u201d along with a picture of Mr. Musk saluting during a speech in Washington<\/a>. In Italy, street art depicts Elon Musk taking off a mask to show Adolf Hitler\u2019s face underneath. The words \u201cElon Mask\u201d appear above the picture.<\/p>\n

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Humor and art have been used to mock the powerful in Britain for centuries. Now Elon Musk is on the receiving end.The mischievous posters began appearing all over London in the past two months.On the side of an East London bus stop, one of them shows Elon Musk, the world\u2019s richest man, emerging from a Tesla\u2019s roof with his hand pointing upward in a straight-armed salute. \u201cGoes from 0 to 1939 in 3 seconds,\u201d the ad reads. \u201cTesla. The Swasticar.\u201dAnother mock ad shows Mr. Musk and President Trump in front of a red Tesla with the words: \u201cNow With White Power Steering.\u201d In North London, a fake movie billboard blares: \u201cThe Fast and the F\u00fchrer,\u201d with a picture of Mr. Musk saluting beside a Tesla with a DOGE license plate, a reference to the budget-slashing federal agency he currently leads on behalf of Mr. Trump.\u201cParental Guidance,\u201d warns the billboard, put up by a group calling themselves Everyone Hates Elon. \u201cTesla\u2019s CEO is a far-right activist. Don\u2019t give him your money.\u201dAcross the British capital and in several European cities, Mr. Musk\u2019s signature business has become the target of the same kind of political anger that has fueled vandalism of Tesla cars in the United States and sometimes violent protests at his dealerships.There have been some instances of unruly protests and vandalism in Europe. But much of the anti-Musk sentiment has taken the form of political satire, of the kind that has flourished in Britain since at least the 18th century.Just outside Berlin, a group called the Center for Political Beauty used high-power lights to project the word \u201cHeil\u201d onto the side of a Tesla factory so that it read \u201cHeil Tesla,\u201d along with a picture of Mr. Musk saluting during a speech in Washington. In Italy, street art depicts Elon Musk taking off a mask to show Adolf Hitler\u2019s face underneath. The words \u201cElon Mask\u201d appear above the picture.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25427,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25425"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25428,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25425\/revisions\/25428"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}