It was probably a poor choice of words given the situation, but the reality is that there are people in the Tron community (including Tron) who are interested in working with Steemians, and there are Steemians (myself included) interested in working with the Tron community.
I am in the camp that thinks there is potential for our two communities to benefit by working together.
I still think partnership seems like an appropriate term for that, but I do 100% agree that it means nothing if the Steem community doesn’t want to go along with it (I feel I appropriately expressed that in my post).
Just because there are people wanting to team up and work together doesn’t mean we are in support of a forced situation that our community does not agree to.