Elon Musk Mural in Texas Defaced

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Elon Musk Mural in Texas Defaced

February 7, 2025 at 12:43 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 51 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2025/02/07/elon-musk-mural-in-texas-defaced/

"SNIP.........

“A vandal targeted a Texas mural depicting X and Tesla CEO Elon Musk by scrawling the words ‘deny, defend, depose’ across his face,” The Independent reports.

“The words scribbled on the mural — ‘deny, defend, depose’ — are the same ones that were carved into the casings of the bullets Luigi Mangione allegedly used to murder UnitedHealth Care CEO Brian Thompson.”

...........SNIP"

[sakabatou]

1. As it should be

[Baitball Blogger]

2. Yikes!

[BannonsLiver]

3. Excellent

[DBoon]

4. Vandalism is bad

Destroying a democracy is worse

[quakerboy]

12. adding captions

Is not vandalism

[efhmc]

5. This Texan does not recognize that as defacing. It is called truth telling.

[Solly Mack]

6. Photos?

[intheflow]

7. Here's one:

[Solly Mack]

8. Thanks! That's an improvement.

[intheflow]

9. Right?

[Solly Mack]

31. Right!

[SheltieLover]

11. Big improvement!

[Solly Mack]

32. I think so. :)

[Prairie Gates]

10. What kind of a herb paints Elon Musk on the wall?

Bozos.

[Shipwack]

13. This is the way. nt

[aeromanKC]

14. I like!!

[efhmc]

15. Where exactly is it?

[dalton99a]

19. In downtown Brownsville on East Adams and 10th streets

[efhmc]

27. Darn. Too long of a drive from central Texas,

but thanks for the info.

[Timeflyer]

16. Nice.

[dalton99a]

17. Elon Musk is a global threat and an enemy of humanity.

[valleyrogue]

18. I don't know how you can "destroy" something that is visually repellent to begin with.

I don't think there is anybody more physically more repellent than Eloon Musk.

[2naSalit]

20. Good!

I think we might find out there are more Luigis than we imagined.

[blogslug]

21. Interesting later detail...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/elon-musk-mural-texas-defaced-message-b2693617.html

The original mural artist repaired the vandalism:

On Wednesday, the mural's original artist, Alexandro Gonzalez-Hernandez — who goes by the name @popc_ulture on social media — painted over the additions and added a name tag saying "Hello, my name is Luigi M" to Musk's image.

He says that Elon called him and asked him to add the painted nametag with those exact words. When a Houston Chronicle reporter asked if @popc_ulture thought maybe he'd been duped by an impersonator using AI, the artist replied:

"The lines between AI and reality are blurring—maybe it was Elon, maybe it was AI, or maybe it was something even bigger. The world is full of surprises!"

[LeftInTX]

26. Here is how it looks now.

[efhmc]

29. What does that mean exactly?

[LeftInTX]

30. I don't know.

[drmeow]

33. All I can think of is

trying to imply that Musk is a populist hero who isn't afraid to break the law to do what HE thinks is the right thing. A bit to subtle/deep/insightful for Musk to see it that way so, if so, I think the request to the artist was either AI or voices in his head.

[Evolve Dammit]

22. Just paint roller over ut like DOD did to the wall murals for DEI.

[blueseas]

24. Texas?

[Drum]

25. Here's an image I saw on Facebook this morning.

[peggysue2]

28. Oooooo!

That's a good one. The Art of Resistance comes in many shades.