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AZSkiffyGeek

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1. Online petitions and "retweet if you..." viral tweets are my big annoyances

Reply to Sympthsical (Original post)

Tue May 10, 2022, 11:40 AM

May 2022

What exactly has Change.org accomplished? What issues have been solved because people went online and gave a company their information for marketing?
And the "retweet if" (mostly from Occupy Democrats) is just earning page views and $$. They're also usually grossly oversimplified and inaccurate.

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