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Signing petitions is the easiest and laziest form of activism and incredibly unlikely to change anything. A general strike is a huge risk to the people involved in it, but has the power to cripple a government and force change. 300,000 people committed to risk their livelihood by not showing up to work is a hell of a lot more courageous than 1,000,000 people signing an online petition that comes with no risk.
Even worse is that so many people from the US support it but won't even petition their own government. Critikal is from the US, is a millionaire, has a large following, but (at least to my knowledge) has never used any of that in an attempt to enact political changes in the US. For me, that is way more depressing.