[InclinedPlane]

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.

[baddox]

I would say that writing your politicians is also nearly or equally as useless.

[henrikschroder]

> 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.