Honest question, has Change.org (or online "petition" sites in general) ever accomplished anything that objectively improved material conditions? A skim of their wiki article lists that [in the US] they; A) saved a dog from being euthanized after he killed a duck on a farm(???), and B) got Sallie Mae to stop charging people money every 3 months to keep their loan payments suspended. and that's about it. Both are unironically good things, as is the platform's potential for spreading awareness to causes generally ignored by the news cycle.

It's just, the reverence liberals have for petitions and "engaging in your civic duties" is perfectly personified in the popularity and undeserved (imo) reverence that Change.org has. They're a for-profit organization! They're incentivized to maximize engagement, regardless of whether it's genuine or not, and they certainly don't have the pull the meaningfully influence the decisions of capital. And yet libs keep parroting that "you just need to get involved in the PohLittyCall Process" yet this kind of shit is almost entirely what they mean by that. "Yes I'll give my personal information to a random website and comment that trump is a burnt cheeto who should be IMPRISONED! wow I am such an activist, time for daily brunch!" ugh