2d ago

Elon Musk sculpture defaced near SpaceX launch site in Texas

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A 9-foot-tall statue depicting a bust of tech billionaire Elon Musk has been vandalized in South Texas.

A photograph showing two areas where it appears a top layer of material has been stripped from the statue, revealing a white or pale gray layer underneath. A tattered ribbon of the top layer material hangs raggedly from the chin of the Musk sculpture.

The vandalism of the Musk sculpture joins a pattern of vandalization of property and vehicles associated with Musk, whose appointment as a top Trump adviser and head of the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, has drawn ire nationwide.

The Rio Grande Valley hasn’t been spared from that trend.

In February, a mural of Musk located in downtown Brownsville was defaced by graffiti that read “Deny Defend Depose,” along with an anarchy symbol that was scrawled in black spray paint over one of Musk’s cheeks.

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2d ago

Elon Musk sculpture defaced near SpaceX launch site in Texas

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WTF is this thing?
- Holy shit. I assumed you quickly made a ridiculously bad AI approximation what his 9-foot tall bust would like. But… that’s real… even the “memelord” inscription. WTF.
  
  I had to google that shit myself thinking you guys were both having a giggle. No fucking way...
  
  Lmfao is he fucking serious with that thing…? What the actual fuck?
- Racist shitheads having ugly statues seems to be a thing.
  
  That one's hilarious
  
  I can't tell who's on more drugs the horse, Forrest, or the gun.
- How is that real and not AI Slop?
- Is this after it was vandalized?
  
  No, it looks better now
- He got the same sculpter as Ronaldo.
- Damn, that's the worst case of vandalism I've ever seen!
- It's like Ron Swanson shaved his mustache, got stung by bees, then had a stroke.
- New Bioshock/Idiocracy crossover just dropped
- Insecurity, probably.
- The artist clearly wasn't a fan.
  
  Here’s the story behind it.
  https://elonrwa.com/story
- AI?
  
  It is not
- God it’s even uglier than the CR7 one.
  And at least CR7 does—or did—one thing really well and I understand setting up a statue for him.
  Who commissioned this? The “MemeLord” himself? It’s pathetic.

There's a long history of people pulling down authoritarian monuments.
Not in the US. Yet.
- Could’ve sworn the US had started pulling down those stupid confederate monuments. Doesn’t that count?
- we got a bunch of civil war monuments removed, we are on the way
  
  Sanctioned removal of monuments is one thing. Angry people throwing chains over them and pulling down with trucks is another.

It was created by an Elon Musk superfan who identified himself to ARTnews as a French tech entrepreneur under the pseudonym “Louis XXII."
His other pseudonyms include Adrian Dittman and Doge Designer

Why does this fuckhead have a statue? What is wrong with him?
- Could you imagine the actual diagnoses.
  
  The words “Sociopathic Narcissist” would probably play into it.
  
  Pathology: See Elon Musk
- And apparently a mural... which was vandalized in February

That is one fucking ugly statue to begin with...
But then, look what the artist had to work with. 🤷‍♂️
- It's fiberglass with a coating over it. It's a fake bronze statue like those animals in the play area at amusement parks.
  Hmmm, trump uses fake bronzer and elon makes a fake bronze statue. Coincidence?
  
  Intellectually in the Bronze Age as well
- You see art is about a story...
  /s
  The sculpture, which features an unrealistic visage of the SpaceX company founder, was created based off of a poorly drawn pencil portrait of Musk posted by a user named Watchieboy to the r/drawing community on Reddit six years ago.
- you see, his eyes bulging out and dilated, its when he was high on cocaine all the time.

Next time deface the man himself.

You love to see it. Keep this civil disobedience up! It probably won't fix anything, but it sure as shit annoys them.

Never let that POS have a moment of peace in his life again!
- bankrupt the mofo then deport him to Mars

Did he pay for a statue of himself?

In other words, good. Also, no one gives a shit about billionaire snowflake feelings.

I'd be impressed if that statue remains un-vandalized for long without significant security.
- Save government money by destroying it now

It's not nationwide, it's multinational, although obviously not for the same reasons. Several countries in Europe are also protesting and vandalising Tesla and Musk-related stuff.

There is too much left
Nazis shouldn't have statues
Billionaires should have statues
Scammers shouldn't have statues
Racists shouldn't have statues
Thieves shouldn't have statues
Assholes should not have statues
So Elmo musk shouldn't have a statue
Fuck Elmo musk

a little outer layer (paint?) is peeling in 2 spots. hardly “vandalized” imo.
- Yea it's probably just natural decay and self destruction like his cars.
- Quite literally "defaced" though

There's a lyric in a Why? song Only those evil live to see their own likeness in stone.
- That's not stone, that's fiberglass with a "stone" coating on it. Fake as fake can be.

ordered a statue of himself for those who still doubt he's narcissistic, no clearer proof
- It was put in place by crypto-scammers

Sledge Hammer would be faster.

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