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by InclinedPlane 4903 days ago
These petitions are utterly useless.

In fact, they are worse than useless, because they channel energy that would otherwise be useful into such a feckless means.

If you care about something, write your reps in congress, your senators, and the president. Clicking a button on on a whitehouse.gov petition is as useless as liking a political post on facebook.

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I would say that writing your politicians is also nearly or equally as useless.
> In fact, they are worse than useless, because they channel energy that would otherwise be useful into such a feckless means.

No no, they channel slacktivism, which is always useless, no matter where it is channeled.