Based on the evidence that I have right now, it seems that they were engaged in pretty evil conduct... but maybe I am missing a few details, and I doubt it is really worth a battle to go down this path, right?
we get to trust the math but not necessarily the various people?
mathematically someone evil and hidden is trying to destroy bitcoin - this is true and correct
bitcoin is mathematical trust and transparent - this is true and correct
mathematically then to change the trust and transparency you expose the evil intentions against bitcoin
but not the person funding it, only the players being funded can do that
1. If they do know they wont 2. If they realize they being duped, they may be too scared
I think that we are on the same page here, mymenace... Some posters here, seem to think that you just accept that these fucking attackers have been acting in good faith in order to "improve" bitcoin, which should be obvious, for the most part, that they are not acting in good faith because otherwise they would work within the system to make robust proposals and to argue them to death and provide evidence and attempt to garner support through those kinds of means, rather than engaging in what seems fairly obvious as destructive measures and lucky for us, there is a smart enough community of bitcoinners that recognize the bullshit of the attackers and a large number of strong (and seemingly smart) core developers to also develop robust code and strategies that protect capital punishment type death to bitcoin, which kind of seems to make bitcoin stronger - lucky for us BTC HODLers and accumulators.