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So, it's ok to promote spoilers, as long as you're in an area where it won't have any impact on the outcome?
You get how that still has the overall effect of legitimizing their role in other areas, right? You're basically doing unpaid advertising for the opposition, and proving that this strategy is effective...while doing literally nothing to benefit your own position.
Which is exactly what 3rd parties are for in the US. At best, they are entirely ineffective. At worse, they help the opposition to maintain power.
At best they're an indication of a demographic that wants a change that isn't the other major party, signalling to the party that they might benefit from pivoting at least a little in that direction. That signal is usually ignored, of course, but we are talking about "at best".
You're assuming they represent a genuine alternative to the two major parties. What I'm saying is that they are a manufactured alternative, intended to dilute the opposition vote.
Jill Stein and several other Green party representatives all but admitted that this was the case during the 2024 election. They knew they had no chance of winning, and their stated intention was only to make sure the Democrats lost.
they also wanted the Republicans to lose
I'm making no such assumption. Even if the third party is acting in extremely bad faith my statement holds up just as well.