alternating yellow and white chalk on black blank subway advertisement spaces.
"NO ONE VOTED FOR ELON"
"RISE AND RESIST"
"RESISTANCE IS CONTAGIOUS"
"WHO WILL SAVE US? WE WILL SAVE US"
found on the uptown C train platform at 50th street station. found on february 9, 2025.
At first glance, it seemed like any other Monday evening in Görlitz, the most eastern town in Germany — where Poland sits just across the river. It was July 31, and a couple hundred people had gathered as part of the so-called Monday demonstrations to protest refugees, the COVID-19 vaccine and the government’s green energy politics.
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’s richest man, emerging from a Tesla’s roof with his hand pointing upward in a straight-armed salute. “Goes from 0 to 1939 in 3 seconds,” the ad reads. “Tesla. The Swasticar.”