I was just getting on to "defend" you.
@mathdude voters: I get that his comment was anti-town, but I don't see a scum narrative. Protecting Joseph? It IS early for partner theories. Hedging, certainly, but that's unnecessary for scum's agenda in this setup with several wagons going. Trying to create a no exile? Scum wants an exile. Maybe it's just that you sense anxiety in his post? I really would like to know.
He could be hesitating to join a wagon on traitor!Joseph while suggesting that he
totally could vote for Joseph if only not for these purely technical reasons that have nothing to do with his reads, he could be hesitating to join a wagon on town!Joseph who he knows is a misxile while leaving open the option of joining it later when it hopefully looks less scummy to do so.
Meanwhile, there's no town narrative. "Oh no, there are
two votes on this random other player whose alignment I don't know, and we are only almost halfway through the day! I better do something about this" is not a believable thought process for him to have.
In general, literally everything he has done this game has been mostly about himself and being concerned about how he's being read by others, he's overexplaining everything he's doing, even when he's not even really doing anything he's somehow still explaining it. Being focused on himself stopped being alignment indicative after the wagon on him started, but he was doing it since the beginning, and he's definitely still doing it too.
Vote: gk[\b]
Scumslip!