“One Battle After Another” aligned so perfectly with Hollywood groupthink it immediately leaped to the top of the Best Picture race upon release.

And, Sunday night, Paul Thomas Anderson’s film fulfilled those predictions.

The film, which glorifies violence against the U.S. government, won six Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor (Sean Penn).

Adam Carolla cried foul over the victory lap.

The podcaster/comic blasted the Academy for showering the film with wins, suggesting artistic quality had less to do with the results than its progressive agenda.

“It’s not a good film,” Carolla said. “It’s sad, but if you make a film that has a theme of White Supremacy and black activism and Sean Penn being a cartoon character, then you got a good chance of winning.”

“You make one about ‘F1,’ you’re not gonna win,” Carolla said of the Brad Pitt smash that earned a Best Picture nomination but had zero chance of actually winning the Best Picture trophy. He said Oscar voters are hardly invested in car culture, further hampering its chances.

In sharp contrast, “OBAA” was a “weird, MSNBC producer fever dream,” he said. “It wasn’t a good film, not just because I disagree with it politically, it was sort of all over the road.”

He mocked the film’s main characters who freed illegal immigrants from U.S. camps by any means necessary, including violent attacks.

Those freed Mexicans, Carolla argued, didn’t necessarily go on to better lives following their escape. 

“You can’t just take Mexicans and scatter them into the wind … go, my brothers, be free! They’re not beagles,” he cracked. “That’s racist” to think so.

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"I can’t tell you exactly how I would respond to someone who defended Hitler, but I know what I would not do: stalk him on social media, contact his employer to try to get him fired, or ask my government representative to help criminalise such talk.
Does this make me a free speech absolutist? Not quite. ... [More of a] free speech maximalist....

"[T]he maximalist position grants special status to free speech and puts the burden of proof on those who wish to curtail it. While accepting some restrictions in time, place, and manner, free speech maximalism defaults to freedom of content. It aligns with the litmus test developed by U.S. Supreme Court Justices Hugo Black and William O. Douglas, which holds that government should limit its regulation of speech to speech that dovetails with lawless action:

'Let’s go kill a few Germans?' Not kosher.
'The only good German is a dead one?' Fair game. ...

"But but … critics sputter … what about hate speech? Free speech maximalism posits that you can’t regulate an inherently subjective concept. ...

"To those concerned about the dangers of loosening our tongues, I offer Greg Lukianoff’s bracing maxim: 'You are not safer for knowing less about what people really think'.”