they had to resort to standing on a corner with a sign or trying to hand out pamphlets
Heh. Funny anecdote: Years ago, I was sitting in a small coffee shop down near the end of Enghavevej in central Copenhagen. There was this guy standing on the sidewalk. A good 220-250 kg, massive gut. Worn jeans, big buckled leather belt, sneakers, strained t-shirt and a meshback cap. And yes, you guessed it: Born again American Christian holding a sign, handing out pamphlets.
Or, rather, he wasn't. It'd be more accurate to say he was holding them. People just looked at him funny and literally walked away, shaking their heads.
Religion is kind of a private thing up here. I've only ever seen people holding signs at actual demonstrations and pamphlets are usually put down somewhere, so people can pick them up at their leisure. He seemed mighty confused that the culture was different than what he was used to. I doubt he did his cause any favors that day.
The only unrealistic aspect of this is that no Elon-backed company would actually get it anywhere near right, so we'd just have a lot of techo-yuppies shuffling around bumping into things, while trying to tell everybody (and the nearest wall) how fantastic the taste of Thursday is and randomly replacing words they wanted to say with "Tasla".
Posting about something that may or may not have been true in the 1240's might invite the wrong sort of response given the rather sensitive contemporaneous context. But you do you.
And all his other progeny. It's almost like some sort of recurring pattern.