What If We Went to War and the Oscars Didn’t Care?

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OK, so it’s not like ICE and Iran made zero appearances Sunday night. 

A documentary winner called out “a government murder[ing] people on the streets of our major cities,” the international Oscar winner noted that “all adults are responsible for all children and let’s not vote for politicians who don’t take this seriously” and Javier Bardem said “no to all war.”

But these were mostly lesser-knowns or, in Bardem’s case, an international figure, making mostly telegraphed or vague comments. The dozens of American Hollywood personalities who took the podium to open an envelope or accept its bounty mainly just said no to all commentary.

Turn on the show oblivious to current events and you’d never have guessed the U.S. just launched a war whose heat ratchets up by the day. You’d never suspect government agents have been snatching Americans on the streets for months. If that happened, surely we’d hear a passionate deriding of a

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