I didn't argue that Red claimed the host was lying, though. That was a rebuttal to paranoia inspired by Kane, and perpetuated by various other players.
With regards to Mones, my argument began and ended with the absurdity of his role claim in a game where town is already drawing the short end of the stick, and how odd it is that such a kill would have been the only one when we'd let the doctor die D1, anyway.
Go read the posts carefully, mate.
I read the posts carefully, and would ask that you do the same for mine. I didn't claim that you argued that Red claimed the host was lying.
What you did do multiple times, however, was draw an either/or situation and leave out the possibility that both of them were telling the truth. For instance:
If Red flips Town then that confirms everyone's fear that the host is lying.
Is just wrong to me, because it isn't true. If Mones were villager-aligned, that does not confirm that the host is lying. That would be absurd.
I agree that the paranoia that Barnes, Kane et al. had in reaction to Ruguo hosting a slightly unconventional game merited a response. What I didn't agree with was legitimizing this theory by hinging it on whether Red Mones was lying or not, because even if Mones had done a true role claim, that says nothing about the game host other than that Ruguo had picked a weirdly experimental role and Mones had used it unwisely.
Also, this is very much an aside, but there are probably multiple defender-type roles in this game. As Ruguo noted on Discord, we killed the
healer, not the doctor, and we know from the previous game that this game also has a doctor (and also other defender roles like the one ExLight had).