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NameAlreadyTaken
May 2024
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that's great, but the only signatures that matter are the people who can do just that.
themaguffin
May 2024
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themaguffin
(5,220 posts)1. that's great, but the only signatures that matter are the people who can do just that.
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Polybius
(21,900 posts)2. Not even the people can do that
She's in there for life.
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Fiendish Thingy
(23,227 posts)3. Internet petitions do nothing but harvest your personal data
They are fundraising mechanisms, not agents of change.
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brooklynite
(96,882 posts)6. But they let you feel virtuous...like voting in a Facebook poll.
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brooklynite
(96,882 posts)4. So what?
"Signing" a MOVEON petition will accomplish nothing but putting your contact information into MOVEON's fundraising apparatus.
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onenote
(46,140 posts)5. A moveon petition calling for Trump to be disqualified under the 14th amendment got over 500,000 signatures.
How well did that work out?
I suspect a petition campaign started on FoxNews calling for Judge Merchan or Judge Chutkan to be removed could get 100,000 signatures in a nano-second.
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GreenWave
(12,641 posts)7. And yet Chile voted no and ousted Pinochet!
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