You're ignoring the entire context of Ranger's D1 play with respect to her stated suspicions:
- Ranger replaces in, and immediately does into a hard elle push.
- Followed by declaring awesome/Mala scum based on one (valid) point (
Post 419).
- But only "Think<s> of switching there," nothing more.
- Unvotes elle in
Post 453, but doesn't go to her next suspicion awesome/Mala. Even though in
Post 439 Ranger was "debating between Elle and Awesome as the better lynch today."
- Then finds Kaboose scum, "probably with Elle," even though Ranger had already unvoted elle and thus suggesting Ranger's elle suspicions weren't exactly up to par any more (
Post 472). This is confirmed in
Post 517 when Ranger states "Elle could be town. Her latest posts felt townish." Weird that Ranger goes from elle to Kaboose, rather than elle to awesome/Mala.
- All the more weird for the lack of an awesome vote because in
Post 524 Ranger states "Awesome could be scum if you <elle> are town." Ranger was reading elle to be townish (
Post 517), which would undercut her associative suspicions of Kaboose and bolster her disassociative suspicions of awesome - thereby leading to an awesome/Mala vote. Not a Kaboose vote.
- No mention of awesome again for remainder of D1.
- Does mention awesome's replacement, Mala, all the way in
Post 728. Simply declares: "Malakittens is town. Now to wait for the other replacements (who hopefully will also make their alignments apparent)." Careful - reading Ranger's posts will give you pretty big whiplash as she changes the slot from her biggest scum read to "apparent" town.
- Ranger then proceeds to get dismissive-defensive about the reason and quickness of her Mala read (
Post 733,
Post 739,
Post 741). Also, successfully makes the conversation about something else by attacking someone who had problems with her Mala read (me) (
Post 741,
Post 743,
Post 744,
Post 753).
CONCLUSION: If Mala is town, Ranger is a possible buddy. Laid out some suspicions that will look good should awesome/Mala get lynched - "look, I suspected that scum!" - but simply refuses to actually follow through on those suspicions w/r/t awesome, and then when Mala replaces in shifts the read 180 degrees for no real justification (also recall that Heartless noted that Mala was doing the exact same thing that Ranger found suspicious about awesome - fencesitting - and so Ranger's read shouldn't have changed) and attacks her attackers.
"This Court has never held that the Constitution forbids the execution of a convicted defendant who has had a full and fair trial but is later able to convince a habeas court that he is 'actually' innocent." In re Davis, 557 U.S. 952, 955 (2009) (Scalia, J., dissenting).
