OP here. I agree with you actually. I didn't ask for it to be stickied or otherwise. I'm just happy it wasn't deleted, it's in off-topic as it should be.
Why was this unstickied?Wrong question. The right question is, why was an off-topic politics thread stickied on the front page? And the answer is, it shouldn't have been, and it's not anymore.
Oh, and before any anti-China nutter chimes in, I did not report the thread. I have not and will never report anything in off-topic. I only report off-topic posts in the econ subforums.