https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions#!/petition/we-demand-vapid-condescending-meaningless-politically-safe-response-petition/gCZfn86x
This is from the "We the People" section of whitehouse.gov.
If not familiar, it's a site where people are allowed to post petitions and if they pass a certain threshold they will receive an official response. Evidently some folks were a little dissatisfied with the quality of the responses thus the petition titled:
"We demand a vapid, condescending, meaningless, politically safe response to this petition."
Since these petitions are ignored apart from an occasional patronizing and inane political statement amounting to nothing more than a condescending pat on the head, we the signers would enjoy having the illusion of success. Since no other outcome to this process seems possible, we demand that the White House immediately assign a junior staffer to compose a tame and vapid response to this petition, and never attempt to take any meaningful action on this or any other issue. We would also like a cookie.
It's about 12k signatures from passing the response threshold. This tickles me to no end.
:lulz:
Signing that the minute I get to my home computer.
Quote from: NoLeDeMiel on November 11, 2011, 07:37:35 AM
Since these petitions are ignored apart from an occasional patronizing and inane political statement amounting to nothing more than a condescending pat on the head, we the signers would enjoy having the illusion of success. Since no other outcome to this process seems possible, we demand that the White House immediately assign a junior staffer to compose a tame and vapid response to this petition, and never attempt to take any meaningful action on this or any other issue. We would also like a cookie.
adorable. :) I love it.
side note: Good exercise to put the lie to social media/e-voting =s democracy/empowerment.
:lulz: Perfect!
Signed/shared.
Site is borked for me, it won't let me sign.
I see you on there. You're #11,185.
Quote from: Precious Moments Zalgo on November 11, 2011, 10:44:16 PM
I see you on there. You're #11,185.
I managed to make it work, but it took a while.
I couldn't get it to work in Chrome, but Firefox worked for me.
Quote from: Precious Moments Zalgo on November 11, 2011, 11:22:46 PM
I couldn't get it to work in Chrome, but Firefox worked for me.
I'm using Firefox and it's worked for me before... what was weird is that I was logged in, but it told me I had to log in, so I clicked the "log in" button and it asked me if I wanted to log out. :lulz:
Quote from: Nigel on November 11, 2011, 11:27:16 PM
Quote from: Precious Moments Zalgo on November 11, 2011, 11:22:46 PM
I couldn't get it to work in Chrome, but Firefox worked for me.
I'm using Firefox and it's worked for me before... what was weird is that I was logged in, but it told me I had to log in, so I clicked the "log in" button and it asked me if I wanted to log out. :lulz:
I had the same issue with Firefox. It worked in Safari the first time though.
Quote from: Nigel on November 11, 2011, 11:27:16 PM
Quote from: Precious Moments Zalgo on November 11, 2011, 11:22:46 PM
I couldn't get it to work in Chrome, but Firefox worked for me.
I'm using Firefox and it's worked for me before... what was weird is that I was logged in, but it told me I had to log in, so I clicked the "log in" button and it asked me if I wanted to log out. :lulz:
Odd. That's what was happening for me in Chrome, but then Firefox worked.
:lulz: I love that the US government can't make a website that works.
Quote from: Nigel on November 12, 2011, 12:38:57 AM
:lulz: I love that the US government can't make a website that works.
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