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Millionaires of Misery: How Nonprofit CEOs Monetize the Suffering They Can’t Solve

There exists a particular breed of well-moisturized predator stalking the ruins of the American dream. Dressed in tailored linen, adorned with foundation-sponsored lanyards and sincerity-shaped lapel pins, they glide from keynote to keynote, murmuring words like “equity,” “impact,” and “community stakeholder engagement” with the precision of a Silicon Valley chatbot trained exclusively on TED Talks and NPR. These are the CEOs of compassion, the millionaires of misery—modern clergy of the nonprofit industrial complex, who have transformed human suffering into a sustainable business model.

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Beneath the Duopoly’s Stage Lights: Voting Democrat or Republican Is No Longer a Right—it’s a Trap

In the smoggy twilight of our political theater, the two grand protagonists—Democrat and Republican—stumble across the stage, each claiming the moral high ground while hawking oppression as choice. How spectacular, that our civil right to vote has been twisted into a vicious irony: voting is sold to us as liberation, but casting that ballot within the duopoly shackles us instead, binding our agency to a grotesque partnership with our own subjugation.