I have a massive problem with that sort of casual dismissing of the red truth. Yes, you can technically spin words in such a way that basically everything is stateable in red. But that’s no excuse to stop thinking and just say “welp the red is unreliable”. It’s the same if you were to say that everything except the red is unreliable. Yes the witch can show you anything, but it’s being shown to you for a reason. The red is much the same; the red statements are made for a reason.
Think back to when and in what context most of those red statements were made. The vast majority were made by Beatrice, some by Lambdadelta. What did they want to achieve with those red statements? If we put their identity as ‘clarifiers’ into question, we also have to establish what their purpose really was in that case. And for that I have to ask: Pray tell, why the hell would Beatrice or Lambdadelta make red statements that are only valid in red due to a technicality?
Let’s do this with an example:
Taken at face value, this statement clearly directly implies that both Eva and Hideyoshi are dead. At the same time, it’s very easy to say, “both” can refer to literally anyone in the world, maybe to two random people who happened to get killed at some point in the past, so the red statement is unreliable. But then one huge question pops up that cannot be ignored: Why would Beatrice make such a misleading red statement? As far as I’m concerned, there is no conceivable reason as to why Beatrice as we know her would do that.
Of course conversely there has to be a reason as to why Beatrice and Lambdadelta would make those nice clarifying statements as well. But I assure you, from that perspective, you can easily find a contextual reason for every single red statement in the game as to why it’s said and what the one who made the statement wanted to get across by saying it. Once we get to the respective parts in the Tea Party, I’ll be happy to give my own thoughts as to what those reasons might be; not that I find any of them to be difficult to reason out given the context.