• Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    4 days ago

    The purpose of online petitions is to provide a means for people to psychologically discharge their righteous anger at something and need to be heard about it, by “doing something”, with a “something” which the politicians can safelly ignore.

    It’s a lot harder to ignore large demonstrations and even harder to ignore people activelly campaigning at the grassroots level in their electoral circles to make specific asshole politicians loose their seats, so best have the plebes citizens discharge their anger on some automated online straight-to-trash People’s Will recorder.