Wow, all that makes me feel better about Zack even if I think some of this is what you think it is but I don't see it as you trying to manufacture here because you put in some good work on d1 rereads. I doubt scum would put in such effort unless someone was on the line and it's too early in the phase for that.
Will respond generally but for this:
"Unnaturally" seems a bit of a stretch here. Before this phase, I have loads of posts on Jason and they go back and forth because honestly I wasn't sure where to put him. It was hard for me to figure him between distracted townie and poorly playing scum because either way his plays were not super great. There were so many people on him that I figured if he was scum he would get lynched eventually but when there are a ton of people highly focused on one target it always makes me kind of suspicious (which is why I went after Bulk, who spent a lot of d1 talking about Jason and the town leader thing with Black Ranger). But in
531 I put Jason right above Billy, who I voted, and I consistently put both Jason and Trini in my shady group of potential scum (533, 591 both have them and I know at least somewhere else in d1), which is why I said I was fine with either flip in #663 which you quoted. You're right that there are a few places where I could be read as defending him. I see that as you post it but my intent was just that I didn't want to see people tunneling to a point of manufacturing artificial connections but hey, turns out Jason was scum so maybe any potential "tunnels" were pretty good.
But when you quote that thing about me and Trini where I talked about d1 and meta, those two don't go together the way I think you're tying them together if I am reading you right. I also jumped on Jason for his 180s on Trini and my thing about meta was in reference to an earlier post about whether or not d1 was important.
I'll own that I fucked up and should have got more with the Jason stuff but I really wasn't sure how to read him so I spent more time looking elsewhere.