From what I have seen in life, of how everybody including myself behaves, and how I think/feel, it is not just a possibility. The question is not is there any political corruption at all, the question is how much more than zero is it? When we fail to have checks and balances at all, or that actually try to work, then we're kinda doomed.
Might I ask that we all just get along so that we can do something about what we don't like of the TTIP/TTP/etc. here? Seems to me that spending time navel gazing about what EFF/FFTF/etc. did right or wrong seems to be a good way to torpedo things. (Sure, I want things to be Done Right, and I don't sign petitions that are sorta right but done wrong, but politics is not going to be pure, frankly.)
I think having a ui widget to let us fold sub threads would be great. I really don't enjoy trying to scroll past some giant thread I think is not interesting to me.
Frankly, I feel like this is an indictment of all software development, everywhere. When you need to do this kind of a thing, you are doing it wrong. I do not mean I am doing it any better, I have the same issues e.g. working on Android, but there are probably some fundamental things we could be doing to avoid all these horrible symptoms. Things like NixOS come to mind, where people are actively researching and experimenting with possibly better alternatives. I pray somehow somebody smart and motivated can find some fundamental solutions instead of this rube goldberg overkill type answer.
So "long term investor" is a code phrase for "corporate profit shill"? If PP is doing something bad then get out, and take the loss. To claim that the loss prevents one from getting out is to proclaim that one values money over e.g. people.
(Sure, if that's like your only money, than that's not so easy a decision.)