A pump and dump based on hype and false promises means nothing.
Vitalik sold immutable tokens and now the word has been wiped clean. This is false advertising, deceptive and bait and switch. Ethereum Classic believes in the original intent.
The repeated use of childish appeals to popularity ("nobody likes ETH Classic, neener-neener") to justify this emergent politicized governance structure do more harm than the DAO hacker ever could.
OTOH, we always knew or should have known ETH is functionally VitalikCoin.
Nevertheless, the self-serving hypocrisy burns with the fire of a hundred supervolcanoes:
If you don't want a Bitcoin hard fork to roll back FBI, MtGox, and Pirate40 (etc) thefts, you must be SUPPORTING BITCOIN THIEVES!
That's the only logically consistent position for mETH (mutable ETH) heads to take.
Of course they don't care about silly academic issues like mutability; they are here only for the pump and dump fiat profits.
Look how gleefully they trade liberty for security; see how scornfully they dismiss the idea they don't deserve, nor will achieve, either.
Admission to VB's decentralization theater is paid in mutable tokens.
Those who deserved to lose money are being reimbursed with Helicopter Vitalik's freshly-printed monopoly money; the stench of moral hazard hangs thick in the air, choking out the brief whiff of ETH's former promise.
Only systems that are structurally incompatible with fraud don't suffer from the overhang of potential fraud.
What VB claimed to be selling: immutable tokens
What VB actually sold us: trivially mutable tokens
The invisible hand, wielding smooth's razor, begins its grisly work, cutting capitol allocation from where it is treated arbitrarily and moving it to places where the Code Is Law ethos is respected as more than just a marketing slogan.
How long until Chancellor Butarin authorizes a second round of bailouts?
It's now a matter of when, not if. The moral overhang has been set in stone.
As of now, it's impossible to refute VB's demonstration of ETH's structural compatibility with fraud.