For clarification I’m not asking for the sub to be banned because I think it will be a rallying point for our causes. Nor because all of our posting energy will suddenly be sublimated into real political action. No, I ask for the sub to be banned for the same reason that the failed Alien/Ripley hybrid (from the classic piece of American 00s cinema, Alien: Resurrection) begged for its own incineration. The sub is an amalgam which never should have been brought into being in the first place. The contradictions of its existence are painful and need to be brought to a merciful end. While it was nobly intended, just as those scientists wanted a neat unstoppable bio-weapon, some of us grew to love our creation because of its flaws. Just like Brad Dourif’s character fell prey to his own creation so too have some of us.

That’s just my take. I think it’s equally possible that it would just be some really funny shit if they banned this sub. Not like Obi-wan, Rorschach or other cringe man-child martyrs, but instead as adults who realize it’s just a sub on a forum and its banning would be objectively hilarious.