Sunday’s Academy Awards were refreshingly devoid of political pontificating, save for a few jokes about news of the week and Joaquin Phoenix’s plea for veganism.

Oh, and that moment when a documentary director working for the Obamas film production company decided to embrace Karl Marx and spread an outright lie in the process.

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