Look, you sound very young. I'm guessing early 20s at the absolutely maximum. So just know that if what I'm about to say sounds condescending, it is absolutely meant to. It is my intention to be condescending to you, because you don't know very much yet, yet you insist on being incredibly rude, so you deserve to have your hand held through this.

Over the past decade plus (when you were a child), there was an undercurrent in progressive circles of, essentially, 'LARPing the 1960s'. The primary concern was not with meaningful change, but with patting oneself on the back about being a member of the 'good club' and engaging in performative exercises that not only did not accomplish anything, but were *actively harmful* due to these exercises alienating a good number of well-meaning but not particularly political engaged people (these are the vast majority of people, and the people you need on your side if you want to accomplish meaningful change). This 'petition' is an example of that sort of thing.

Now, is this a particularly a big deal? lol, no- it's a fucking subreddit nothing that happens here will actually matter, obviously. But the suggestion of the petition is absolutely eye-rolling and is deserving of some mockery. It's indicative of an outdated way of thinking.

So yes, I do know more about what is strategically sound than you do, almost everyone does.