They did in Earthbound, in Mother 3 Master Porky took over the Nowhere Isles by introducing money, which he took to mean as defending pre-WWII Japanese culture, which according to him needed to have it's culture erased by America because it was super violent (despite the Japanese people who left Japan prior to WWII not being super violent and Imperialist Japan being a literal dictatorship who oppressed their own people). This cursed ass conversation started over talking about STAR WARS VISIONS too where he started pushing this cursed conversations and his bullshit worldviews.