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Friday Fun Thread for June 12, 2026

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The Pew Research Centre has a new political typology quiz.

I'm classified as "Pragmatic and Polite Right".

Something feels off, I got "Faith First Conservative" which is wild because I am militantly an agnostic pluralist. Looking at the "Gender, Religion, and Society" tab shows extremely opposite views to the modal "Faith First Conservative"

I might have broken the quiz with my uniqueness lol... Reading through the options, I have some of the positions from a couple cores but disagree with other position in that group. Maybe Pew just hates classical liberals.

Maybe they should create a “Right-wing Libtard,” flavor for just such a conservative.

I'd prefer a "Right-wing Smooth Brain Autist" flavor for my particular flavor of stupid.

Or realistically Gothos + Achamian + DEATH + Nietzsche, but that would require too many brain cells being rubbed together.

Nietzsche, smooth brain and autism were about the only references I caught there. I’m all aboard though. You ever read any H.L. Mencken at all? He was an interesting Nietzschean.

  • Gothos is a character is Steven Erikson's Malazan
  • Achamian is a character in R. Scott Bakker's Second Apocalypse
  • DEATH is from Terry Pratchet.

Just characters that I felt resonated and influenced my worldview.

H.L. Mencken at all

No I have not, I'll put him on my book list lol. I generally stick to the White Autist classic genres: Fantasy, SciFi, Philosophy, looks like Mencken is predominately non-fiction?

Ah. That explains why I didn’t catch it. Your first two points I’m completely lost on. I can’t read most fiction, even though I love a lot of classic Sci-Fi. I’m mostly a non-fiction guy. I do know who Terry Pratchet is though.

And yes, H.L. Mencken was a great American iconoclast who was a fairly die hard Nietzschean. I greatly enjoyed his writings. Literary critics like Hitchens were put off by him because he thought he was “too much” of a Nietzschean (is there even such a thing?). His teachings were greatly bastardized by people throughout history (the most cited example being the Nazis, of which Hitler unlikely read anything Nietzsche wrote); and of course Nietzsche has always been the favorite philosopher of every rebellious, testosterone fueled 14 year old boy.

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