Only MAGAs believe that. Any remotely sane person sees the situation as you do, as evidenced by the fact that Canada is now implementing counter-tariffs and the only people wailing about how unfair it is are said MAGAs. Who would never have been satisfied or influenced by anything we did, as it turns out.
So if Linus Torvalds were to announce one day "I'm tired of Linux, time to burn it all down" that'd be fine? Someone else can just create a new operating system, after all.
The point here is that OP may have "created" the subreddit in the sense of clicking a few buttons and filling out some text fields, but at this point it's a community with 200,000 participants. Those participants also share in its ownership. Forcing them to jump through hoops recreating the whole thing just because OP's decided he wants a Viking funeral is selfish.
I guess we're back to the old way of things, where countries could simply roll into neighbours with their militaries and claim pieces of territory for themselves. The relative peace of the past 80 years was nice while it lasted.
I suppose if I had to look for silver linings, it'd be that Africa sorely needs some borders redrawn after the clusterfuck of colonialism. This isn't really the best way to do that though.
I sometimes steal pieces of it, if only for inspiration, but I love worldbuilding and making up my own settings.
I'm currently running an adventure in a Spelljammer setting where most of the previous D&D campaigns I've run over the years exist on different planets, with elements of all of them now able to make cameos or interact with each other. It's wild.
Trump has also made it very clear that this isn't really about fentanyl, that's just a convenient excuse (he can't impose tariffs without congress unless it's for "national security.")
His real purpose seems to be some combination of "if I hurt Canada then that makes America stronger somehow" and "if I hurt Canada enough then they'll give up and submit to being conquered by America outright." He's said both of these things, and Trump is too cheese-brained to be an effective liar; when he shows you what he's really like you should believe him.
It's a war of aggression, essentially. Fentanyl is just his Gulf of Tonkin.
Then they can make a new sub and pointlessly use their own leg work.
The existing sub is right there. OP wants to walk away from it. There's absolutely no point to burning it to the ground and forcing someone else to do a bunch of work to recreate it, it's just petty.
I've had to deal with this sort of "if I can't have it nobody can" mentality in online communities before, helping rebuild the ruins of something that someone pointlessly destroyed on their way out the door, and it massively sucks. OP's just going to make everyone hate him.
Meanwhile, Europe is pursuing replacements for Ukraine. Obviously none as good as Starlink and there'll be a rough time in the switchover, but Musk is not the only source for this kind of service.
And in the meantime, by merely making this statement Musk has doomed Starlink to never be seriously considered again as a provider for critical services like this elsewhere in the world.
Might not necessarily be as narcissistic as you imply. If this person created the sub, and is still the only mod, then it wouldn't really exist without them.
No, but maybe it can exist without him. Out of 200,000 subscribers someone could want to step up and take over.
And frankly he's being incredibly selfish to try this. 200,000 people apparently enjoy his sub, but now that he's bored with it he'd rather see it destroyed than let someone else handle it.
America is currently at war with us, declared abruptly and out of nowhere. They just decided one day "we want to annex Canada!"
Even if Donald's presidency is short-lived and a new slightly saner and less stupid administration takes control, I don't think it's a good idea to be trusting the Americans any more.
We need to disentangle ourselves from any military dependence on such ridiculously unreliable "allies." I'm all for this.
You said Trudeau shouldn't have tried to negotiate. I disagree with that.