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InvisibleMoonshoe
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Sign some petitions * 1
    #18767564 - 08/28/13 08:25 AM (10 years, 5 months ago)

Most of us on the shroomery make thousands of posts on this forum. Why not spend a fraction of that time signing a few worthy petitions that you care about?

Check out http://www.thepetitionsite.com/

and sign a few that matter to you.

:thumbup:


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Re: Sign some petitions [Re: Moonshoe] * 1
    #18767587 - 08/28/13 08:34 AM (10 years, 5 months ago)

will you sign my petition to make obama shut down all the worthless petition sites

armchair activism, lol


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InvisibleMoonshoe
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Re: Sign some petitions [Re: Prisoner#1]
    #18767605 - 08/28/13 08:41 AM (10 years, 5 months ago)

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Prisoner#1 said:
will you sign my petition to make obama shut down all the worthless petition sites

armchair activism, lol




You should create a petition on the petition site to shut down the petition site. It would be funny to see how many people would sign it.

But seriously, if your going to be sitting in your armchair all day anyways, might as well do some armchair activism.

That reminds me I need to phone the prime minister of Canada again today.


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Re: Sign some petitions [Re: Prisoner#1]
    #18767623 - 08/28/13 08:47 AM (10 years, 5 months ago)

Done !! Sign me!...:protest: . . . :peace:


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Re: Sign some petitions [Re: vinsue]
    #18767648 - 08/28/13 09:01 AM (10 years, 5 months ago)

I gave you some baby blues in that petition :Prisoner1: ...   . . .  :peace:


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Re: Sign some petitions [Re: Moonshoe]
    #18767753 - 08/28/13 09:43 AM (10 years, 5 months ago)

Your Online Petition Is Useless
Heather Horn  Aug 12, 2010
Back away from the keyboard. That online petition you're about to sign is "pretty much a sham." Says who? Clay Johnson at InfoVegan, for starters. Johnson is something of a Web organization specialist, having worked on developing the online strategy for both Howard Dean's and Barack Obama's presidential campaigns. "According to the Congressional Management Foundation," writes Johnson, "the House of Representatives got 99,053,399 messages via the Internet in 2004." Your petition really isn't going to get read; the reason organizations try so hard to get you to sign it is that "politicians and advocacy groups value your email address over your voice." In fact:

    It's the great lie of online organizing: that your voice to Congress or your voice to whomever can make a difference. It can, it should, but not through them. Nearly every organization in Washington is focused on one thing--inventing new and interesting ways to get your email address. And they want your email address so that they can ask you for money. The truth is: my.barackobama.com was and still is, the most sophisticated suite of tools designed primarily to capture your email address and ask you for money.

    Online organizers for political groups are trained to recognize "strategic moments"--to find events in the media and in the national narrative that they can use to their advantage. ... The most basic and common method for political organizations to get your email address is via a petition.


So what's a civic-minded person to do? "Skip the advocacy groups," advises Johnson. "If you have something to say to Congress, house.gov gives you a method as does senate.gov." Or, "if you have something to say to Google," or some other corporation, "contact them yourself."


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You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity. What one person receives without working for another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for that my dear friend is the beginning of the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it. ~ Adrian Rogers


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Re: Sign some petitions [Re: luvdemshrooms]
    #18767786 - 08/28/13 09:50 AM (10 years, 5 months ago)

So that petition I just signed to stop all petitions is a sham?


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btw you're a total fucking psychedelic pimp
Turtletotem said:
I want to become a sun worshipper, so next time an atheist smugly asks me where god is, I can point smugly at the sun and laugh my ass off.

Then I drive away in my solar powered piece of shit car, cool stuff man.

And then I go kill a bitch because the flaming orb in the sky told me to do so, and I don't know, oppress a few minorities here and there in the name of nuclear fusion?

Religion is fun.


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Re: Sign some petitions [Re: fee]
    #18767800 - 08/28/13 09:52 AM (10 years, 5 months ago)

According to the article.


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You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity. What one person receives without working for another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for that my dear friend is the beginning of the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it. ~ Adrian Rogers


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Re: Sign some petitions [Re: luvdemshrooms]
    #18767817 - 08/28/13 09:56 AM (10 years, 5 months ago)

Besides fee, you must ask yourself... WWGD?


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You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity. What one person receives without working for another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for that my dear friend is the beginning of the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it. ~ Adrian Rogers


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Re: Sign some petitions [Re: fee]
    #18767958 - 08/28/13 10:45 AM (10 years, 5 months ago)

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fee said:
So that petition I just signed to stop all petitions is a sham?



Those fuckers deleted my petition and suspended my account.:lol:... Thanks for signing, Fee...:thumbup:

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Your account has been suspended for violating either our Terms of Service agreement or our Code of Conduct guidelines. Please review both documents.

An email may have been sent to the email address listed in your account with further details. If you did not receive such an email or have questions regarding your suspension, you may contact our Customer Support team to inquire further.




:minigun::protest::rockets: . . . :peace:


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InvisibleMoonshoe
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Re: Sign some petitions [Re: luvdemshrooms]
    #18767966 - 08/28/13 10:49 AM (10 years, 5 months ago)

These petitions are different though in that they are created by independent individuals . So say I am aware of a particular issue such as say, toxic waste dumping in a local lake. So I create a petition and describe the situation. If that gets 20 000 signatures, it's possible that 20 000 people who never even heard of that issue before now know and care about it. In other words it can be an effective way to raise awareness of a particular issue, which is a good thing.

And if I'm a business owner who is dumping toxic waste in that lake and I get an email with 20 000 signatures of people saying they know what I am doing and disapprove of it, I am likely to respond to that bad publicity and maybe even consider changing the practice in question .

It's like anti-marketing , generating bad publicity for businesses that are engaged in unethical practices.


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Re: Sign some petitions [Re: Moonshoe]
    #18767971 - 08/28/13 10:51 AM (10 years, 5 months ago)

Internet petitions don't actually do anything, because no one reads them besides the people signing them.

Please, show me one case where an internet petition has led to a changed law or the reversal of an injustice and I will gladly retract my statement.

Don't get me wrong, activism is a great thing. But internet petitions are a totally ineffectual form of it. :shrug:


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Re: Sign some petitions [Re: NetDiver]
    #18767976 - 08/28/13 10:54 AM (10 years, 5 months ago)

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Samurai Drifter said:
Internet petitions don't actually do anything, because no one reads them besides the people signing them.:




Even if that is true , most of these petitions have 20 000 or more signatures .so even if only the people signing them read them, that's still a lot of people , and reaching that many people who care does make a difference.


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Re: Sign some petitions [Re: Moonshoe]
    #18768079 - 08/28/13 11:40 AM (10 years, 5 months ago)

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Moonshoe said:
Quote:

Samurai Drifter said:
Internet petitions don't actually do anything, because no one reads them besides the people signing them.:




Even if that is true , most of these petitions have 20 000 or more signatures .so even if only the people signing them read them, that's still a lot of people , and reaching that many people who care does make a difference.




Really? What difference do they make?

Internet petitions are for the lazy who want to feel good abut doing absolutely nothing.


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You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity. What one person receives without working for another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for that my dear friend is the beginning of the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it. ~ Adrian Rogers


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Re: Sign some petitions [Re: vinsue]
    #18768099 - 08/28/13 11:43 AM (10 years, 5 months ago)

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vinsue said:
Quote:

fee said:
So that petition I just signed to stop all petitions is a sham?



Those fuckers deleted my petition and suspended my account.:lol:... Thanks for signing, Fee...:thumbup:






Your welcome.

I wonder if Obama will take notice to our cause finally


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blankk said to fee:
btw you're a total fucking psychedelic pimp
Turtletotem said:
I want to become a sun worshipper, so next time an atheist smugly asks me where god is, I can point smugly at the sun and laugh my ass off.

Then I drive away in my solar powered piece of shit car, cool stuff man.

And then I go kill a bitch because the flaming orb in the sky told me to do so, and I don't know, oppress a few minorities here and there in the name of nuclear fusion?

Religion is fun.


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Re: Sign some petitions [Re: Moonshoe]
    #18768278 - 08/28/13 12:38 PM (10 years, 5 months ago)

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Moonshoe said:
Quote:

Samurai Drifter said:
Internet petitions don't actually do anything, because no one reads them besides the people signing them.:




Even if that is true , most of these petitions have 20 000 or more signatures .so even if only the people signing them read them, that's still a lot of people , and reaching that many people who care does make a difference.




What do you mean even if that is true? IT IS TRUE.

You want to make a difference, get off your ass and make a difference.

Sitting on the internet and signing a LOLtition is not going to do ANYTHING. Period. Nada. ZIP.


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