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The petition site change.org is extremely popular, but many are surprised to learn it is a for-profit corporation. It isn’t a charity, it exists to make money and has investors who expect a return.

Giving a profit-making corporation your real name as well as your opinions on a wide range of topics is not a wise idea in the long term. That sort of data is very valuable to advertisers, and sooner or later a company may be tempted to sell it to them.

Governmental Petition Portals

For political issues, you should petition governments directly on issues. This more easily gets the attention of people in power, is less likely to sell your data, and governments are often compelled by law to respond to petitions which receive enough signatures.

In some countries, popular petitions may trigger a parliamentary debate or even a referendum.

(The link op posts has a list with links to these Governmental Petition Portals, but not any other alternative.)

Don't want to kill your vibe, but in my country if you submit some request it will go from submitted, to received, to under review, to reviewed, to taken under consideration, to addressed, to being dealt with, to dealt with, to finished considering, to completed with the first few days and then you hear nothing for weeks or months and suddenly you get a letter with a decision (or the thing you applied for or a written decline or whatever). You end up getting something here and I hope you will too, but those status updates never seem to say much lol

I would agree if people would experience the things that are different as something good, but that's often not what happens. Most cases people tend to treat things that are strange and unknown as scary and bad. Also, most people with a disability or mental illness are reminded about that regularly. The guy that misses a leg sees people walking all the time for example. Nobody should delusion themselves, no mater how far or close you are from the norm. That being said, I dont disagree with what you say about American culture and education. Stigma for disabled people, poor people and homeless people is very similar. Let me repeat my point and say that treating these people well is not gonna fix their problem, but it will make it easier to deal with life.

No but I don't want mine to be associated with him, also assholes are quite useful so

Only his final years I'm afraid

The problem with that theory is that it is based on science, they use a different base. I'm not sure what it is yet, but it's obviouslult not science. Maybe it is just wanting to be special, but even then it doesn't make sense to me.

People who are different from the norm face people that treat them differently. You are right only giving it a shiny new positive name isn't gonna solve all of their problems. But at least giving them the respect that other (not different) people get can already make a huge difference in someone's life. Of course that's not going to make their disability go away. No matter how well you treat someone who is missing a leg, it is not suddenly going to disappear. But it helps a lot if they don't also have to deal with stigma. Imagine missing a leg and also being called names, being stared at and never getting an office job because them having a wheelchair would be a nuisance to the company. We need both and it solves precisely a problem, although it is indeed not the main problem.

Trump isn't giving much 'i care about the law'-vibes lately

Nice suggestion, I'll keep it in mind when I find HERE or Organic Maps lacking. Tried to look into their business model, which seems to be advertising and selling tickets but they are very open about it which I like. Unlike here, which give me the 'everything is free and we're not gonna tell you how we can afford to do that'-vibe.

I see it's from the UK so if you want @bettertecheu@lemmy.world, you could add it to the overview.

This page lists a bunch of brands you could look into, can't recommend something in particular since what I have myself is also American.

Can't read it, but that wouldn't make sense in this case

True. Let's then agree that A fist to the nose does wonders in the right circumstances.