Thread:Weedle McHairybug/@comment-38922197-20190325123948/@comment-1672596-20190325150012

GekkoGTA wrote: Yeah, Kojima is clearly a far-left guy like most of Hollywood. They support domestic terrorists like Assata Shakur and lie about killers like Cyntoia Brown (though I didn't oppose her sentence commutation because of her age at the time of the crime). At least Kojima hasn't shown signs of Trump Derangement Syndrome like the wackos who tried to influence the Electoral College. I don't like Trump but I never thought he was a Manchurian candidate. That was just crazy. And for the record, I'm a centrist. I didn't vote for Trump but I'm fine with him being our President.

Anyway, I agree that Hot Coldman is the strategist. As for Portable Ops and Rising, at the very least, the games are spin-offs like the Resident Evil Survivor games. The side ops are definitely non-canon (with the exception of the tapes and background info on the base) due to the term "pseudo-historical" being used in the side ops and Survive. Well, he hasn't directly gone after Trump, I'll give you that. I do suspect he has TDS thanks to his remark to Rolling Stone magazine about how he "fears the rise of the right-wing" in America, however. And honestly, considering he knew enough about the Katyn Forest massacre to actually give it a nod in Snake Eater (which is not something our left-wing media establishment even back then, let alone today, is willing to acknowledge, let alone that the Soviets were responsible), or heck, him accurately stating that even before the Cuban Missile Crisis, we were already planning on getting rid of the missile silos in Turkey thanks to their being rendered obsolete via nuclear subs, having him give unobjective praise to Che Guevara via various characters was a massive disappointment (and I actually have personal outrage over that bit because he didn't even bother to list that he was a bad guy, even implied in some of the tapes that he had been a Christian minister, and only found out about his more vile nature when reading the Politically Incorrect Guides).

And yeah, Trump definitely can't have been a Manchurian candidate. If anything, Hillary Clinton was closer to that. I voted for Trump myself, though he wasn't my first choice (neither was Ted Cruz for that matter. Actually, my first choice was Ben Carson). I was hesitant to back him due to implying in one of his speeches that he had no intention of ending Roe v. Wade, and ultimately decided to do so after he chose Mike Pence as his VP (Ending Roe v. Wade is a bit of a dealbreaker for me regarding candidate choices).

And yeah, Survive's pretty clearly non-canon as well (if even the guy who did Metal Gear Rising, who indicated it was canon, says that Survive is non-canon, it's pretty clearly non-canon). The pseudo-historical bits are a bit in the gray area though, thanks largely to not just the background info of the base and the tapes, but also the fact that some of the soldiers you rescue in those missions return in The Phantom Pain with Miller directly referencing MSF's acquisition of them. Though personally, I actually thought Survive had a far better story than MGSV did.