The Day of Action

Tesla Takedown's "Day of Action" yesterday seems to have been fairly successful, with more than two hundred events at Tesla showrooms, within the US and globally.  Turnout typically ranged from around twenty-five to a hundred and fifty people per location, up to several hundred in the largest cities, totaling in the tens of thousands world-wide.  Obviously one would have hoped for more people, but it made for a reasonably effective show of power.

Here in the Portland area, protests were well attended -- pics and video here.  This is Cincinnati.  Tesla Takedown's own Bluesky account has pictures from many other cities.  More reports here and here.

There were reports of threats, harassment, and doxing against Tesla Takedown organizers -- but evidently these achieved nothing.  This illustrates the importance of decentralization, and of eliminating or minimizing the concept of "leaders".  Once the Day of Action event had been announced and widely publicized, there was no one who could have called it off, even if they had wanted to.

Of course, as I explained here, single-day events pale in effectiveness compared with sustained, long-term boycotts.  Yesterday was indeed a valuable display of public enthusiasm, but it's really the ongoing global rejection of Tesla that will bring Musk down.

If you really want some inspirational reading in these depressing times, read this.  Tesla is massively overvalued.  Due to Musk's all-hat-no-cattle leadership, its technology increasingly lags behind competitors.  And his wealth is utterly dependent on the stock, most of which is now collateralized for loans he has used to make various other acquisitions.  It's a house of cards which will totally collapse if the stock price falls below a certain point, leaving him ruined.  Keep up the pressure -- we can and will defeat the man responsible for most of the damage done since January 20.

[Image at top:  Day of Action event in Columbus OH]