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Of course, Oliver Stone is not Donald Trump. But he shares with him a certain way of seeing the world and being in the world – and the luxury of persisting in this way of being, and even making a spectacle of it.

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I really can’t abide conspiracy theories, because I believe that everything in the world stems from idiocy and incompetence. That’s certainly true of most of what’s happened in Russia under Putin.

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If you grew up in Boston, you actually grew up thinking that Patriots’ Day is a major American holiday, sort of like the other Fourth of July.

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May 14, 2024

If you grew up in Boston, you actually grew up thinking that Patriots’ Day is a major American holiday, sort of like the other Fourth of July.

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May 14, 2024

I really can’t abide conspiracy theories, because I believe that everything in the world stems from idiocy and incompetence. That’s certainly true of most of what’s happened in Russia under Putin.

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