Saboteurs Opposed to “Automobile Capitalism” Fail to Storm German Tesla Factory Before Claiming Credit for Stopping Production on a Scheduled Holiday
Grünheide is a small town in Brandenburg and the site of Europe’s only Tesla factory. It is a rare bright point in a German economy that is otherwise rapidly deindustrialising thanks to fruitless Green environmental policies, and so it has become a flashpoint for Leftist activism. You might think that the German Left would have no problem with Tesla, as e-vehicles are an important pillar of the energy transition, but here you would be very wrong. Happy fairy tales about the bright future of electromobility emanate primarily from the Leftist political establishment; their activist militias have different ideas, often preferring broad crusades against everything related to industry, capitalism and profit.
The Grünheide factory employs 12,000 people and contributes millions of Euros every year in taxes, which is bad enough from the activists’ point of view. Still worse, production has caused some water pollution, and Tesla plans to expand the factory, which will entail cutting down some trees. A bunch of “water justice” advocates and forest saviours have therefore crawled out of their Berlin squats and made their way to Grünheide to defend humanity from the scourge of car production.
One of them is a 25 year-old named Luis, who we read “has been committed to climate protection since 2019” and who is “concerned about drinking water”. He also doesn’t like the fact that Brandenburg has moved heaven and earth to stimulate the local economy by incentivising Tesla to set up its factory:
Luis is bothered that many special permits were granted for the construction of the electric car factory. Tesla sometimes constructed its factory on the basis of premature approvals: “You can just tell how interested the state of Brandenburg was in having Tesla set up shop here.”
It is terrifying indeed, the extent to which regional politicians will go to attract industry and employment to their states. Somebody must put a stop to this.
Back in March, when we were all reading long think-pieces about the grave threat posed by the ‘extreme Right’ and hundreds of thousands of dim idiots were taking to the streets to denounce non-existent Nazis, a gaggle of arsonists (or, in media patois, ‘activists’) calling themselves the ‘Volcano Group’ burned down an electricity pole, stopping production at the Grünheide facility for days and cutting off power to various nearby villages. Because the Volcano Group is on the Left, this was not an example of escalating political violence or the fruit of brutalised social media discourse.
Yesterday, our activist heroes returned to further their bold stance against industrial production, which is something nobody has ever thought of doing before. Some of them hail from a group called ‘Turn off Tesla’s tap’. They have partnered with ‘Disrupt’, which the Süddeutsche Zeitung calls a “platform” but which appears to be little more than an X account with 1,784 followers, which is so deeply reviled that those behind it have had to turn off comments on all of their posts.
Our tap-turners set about dismantling German capitalism by blocking a road with the corpses of some tragically slaughtered trees…
…by blocking another road with the help of an ‘end nEocoLONialism’ banner (the capital letters spell ELON, which is very clever)…
…and by throwing paint over a fence onto some cars in a parking lot:
A random girl on the ‘Disrupt’ X account platform explained this bold act as an instance of militant opposition to “the absurdity of automobile capitalism”.
Then our brave communist warriors posed for a poorly staged photograph with a lot of trash, pink smoke and a “Destroy Tesla” banner…
…before finally storming the factory itself with the help of an inflatable turtle:
Afterwards they declared victory on X, and announced the immanence of socialism, wherein trams, buses and cargo bikes will be the only means of personal transport:
The Gigafactory has stopped production today. All car factories should be stopped just like this one!
We want to decide democratically how and what we produce: Trams. Buses. Cargo bikes.
Mobility that benefits everyone. #stoptesla
Their exultation was, alas, premature. None of our socialist revolutionaries managed to penetrate the perimeter fence, and the factory was already shut down to give the workers a long weekend following the bank holiday on Ascension Thursday. These are but mere details on the path towards communist utopia and the end of history.
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The climate dreamers are easily herded. This is what happens to people who are unable to think for themselves, and as we all know people go mad in herds and only recover their senses slowly one by one. It seems that the easily manipulated brainwashed dreamers never investigate anything for themselves. They switch on their BBC News, or they listen to communists like Antonio Guterres at UN conferences, or Greta Thunberg spouting evidence free drivel about mass extinctions and they just swallow it all down as some kind of ultimate truth. They are so easily manipulated and whipped up into a frenzy all based on faith and emotion, but no facts or reason and they run together with their placards like a shoal of herring. ——–Western governments must shoulder the blame for this state of affairs for filling the heads of vulnerable people full of climate propaganda which turns out is a smidgeon of the truth elevated into a planetary emergency but with not one shred of evidence to back it up.
Yes look at all of those delusional people of both sexes behaving like epic nobheads. Who’d have thunk it? They don’t appear to be influenced by whatever chromosomes they’re in possession of at all, do they?🧐
Definitely getting the ‘white colonialist/oppressor’ vibe though. Not much in the way of ‘cultural enrichment’ going on from what I can see…🤔
I have never thought of women as being any less rational than men. ——You are either capable of being a brainwashed dreamer or you are not regardless of what sex you are. Some people are just susceptible to fall for propaganda, just like some people can be hypnotised. ——-I could never be hypnotised. Except maybe by Anne Hathaway (Just kidding)
Well exactly. And the proof of this can be seen when we look at any of the agendas currently being pushed on us. Who’s falling for it and who’s doing the pushing? Who are the big players and architects behind the scenes? As you say, ”brainwashed dreamers” come in all flavours. That’s the reality. Only fools with an axe to grind, who cannot see beyond the end of their noses, and those blinded by bitterness so as to be incapable of rational thought would reduce anything that’s happening in our world right now down to male vs female, and insist on playing the blame game. You can’t have intelligent debate with anybody who views the world through the skewed lens of a hostile obsessive. It’s as futile as trying to talk sense into these ‘Palestinians’ who hate Jews. Some people will insist on hating or demonstrating divisive behaviour no matter what contradictory evidence is all around them.
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Inevitable with mask wearing vegans.
As an ex Royal Engineer that gyn they constructed is laughably bad. I would not trust it to hold its own weight. Apart from that cutting down trees to protest… erm… cutting down trees is imbecilic.
The eco-loons cutting down trees, to protest about Tesla, probably cutting down trees was ironic. Can you imagine the planning needed to arrange an interruptive protest on a day when the plant is shut down? amazing.
I would have liked to have known what transport arrangements this lot used, and also the environmental damage they caused by their actions, and the rubbish they left behind, but alas, this information was probably not available.
All posted on X. The owner of which tries to promote freedom whilst these omoeba brained, seem to want to remove it.
Exactly as a non driver, not an eco warrior, I spend hours trying to find a train, bus, coach in my area that runs on a weekend let alone a public holiday.
It’s so absurd, because Elon Musk has got rich precisely because of the opposite of capitalism.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Elon secretly arranged this “sabotage” as a way of making himself look like a hero of capitalism.
I think the constant wearing of face masks to hide their identities is depriving their brains of oxygen. This is the most likely cause of their unthinking subservience to the Soros philosophy.
The banner also hides an offensive racist slogan made from the letters CSNNOOO. You have to be so careful with your public banners.
“have therefore crawled out of their Berlin squats and made their way to Grünheide to defend humanity from the scourge of car production”
Did they walk? If so what were they wearing, most popular products involve petrochemicals and the purchase of such items involves capitalism. I see no naked people but perhaps the idiot dressed in culturally appropriated Turtle guise is a half-shell?