@Joobidube@mastodon.social @ChrisMayLA6@mastodon.me.uk Going to be a Danny Downer here but can anyone point to a time when a 38degrees petition actually came to anything? I appreciate that they have a page of "successful campaigns" but a lot of them appear to be claiming victory when it appears the other side just changed their mind and decided to do something else instead. (I really doubt a campaign with 174 signatures led to meaningful change). I think the government is well aware that the ease of signing an online petition makes it worthless. Even the parliamentary ones. There is a way to show government how much you care about a cause and that is physical protest. The Suffragettes, the Kinder Tresspass, the Miners Strikes, and so on. 38degrees seems like a great idea but honestly, at this point it feels like it's part of the problem. Complete a few petitions and they have built a database of U.K. citizens with a set of grievances... I can imagine it being relatively easy for the police to get a court order to seize that database and you've just done their job for them.