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Friday Fun Thread for September 25, 2026

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https://12axes.vercel.app/ was terribly confused by my answers. I simply wanted atheist designer babies for everyone, as long as the parents adopt the local language.

  • 89% match to Nordic Social Democracy
  • Your internal tension: Assimilation and Irreligious at the same time
    • Only 21 of the 223 ideologies in the catalog hold both of these positions. Closest matches: Stalinist Socialism, National Communism, Pol Pot Socialism
  • Countries closest to you: Czechia, Denmark, France
  • Figures closest to you: Benjamin Franklin

I simply wanted atheist designer babies for everyone

Wow, imagine congenitally condemning your own children to eternal damnation. Could not be me.

Edit: Apparently I’m an Archeofuturist and a 100% match with Steve Bannon. Never take these seriously but this one is the least bad. I noticed both the short and medium tests lack any questions that directly address race or ethnicity, a major missing component unless I was unlucky in the Q selection.

Archeofuturism (91% MATCH)

A doctrine coined by Guillaume Faye that fuses archaic, hierarchical and traditionalist values, ethnic identity, spirituality and a warrior ethos with an unreserved embrace of advanced technology, arguing that an approaching civilizational collapse will force humanity to combine tribal social order with hyper-modern science.

Figures closest to you, 93% match

(Feeling a bit seen tbh...)

Zapata, Gandhi and Chesterton also in the mix apparently; happily I am incompatible with Stalin, Goebbels and Genghis Khan though!

Federalism (center) - 90%

I believe in federation (like the fediverse): my ideal government is groups organized into hierarchies that mostly regulate themselves and have loosely democratically elected representatives (in this way, like Yud’s dath ilan. In more detail: the representatives are for cross-group conflicts, and the people in the lowest groups and representatives in higher groups act like small neighborhoods, so it’s at least “loosely” democratic in that any individual can significantly affect their group’s policy and representative, like how any individual can significantly affect their small town).

But I also believe in states’ (and towns’) rights, at least to the extent that people can leave (so no slavery, but if a community wants to be racist and exclusionary, I think they should be left alone). I think some “central” entity is useful, but I don’t like strong centralization. Does that go against federalism?

Furthest from you

  • Pol Pot
  • Joseph Stalin
  • Joseph Goebbels

Well, that’s a relief.

I mercifully did the short quiz only because I just got a blank page at the end.

Eco-Conservatism

Well, I've never used that label to describe myself and I don't think I will anytime soon, but nonetheless guilty as charged I suppose. I've always been convinced that conserving nature is conservative, not progressive. I've read too much Tolkien as a teenager, so now I'm immune to the pervasive but incoherent culture war dichotomy of our age which somehow imagines destroying nature in favour of economic liberalism as conservative and opposing that as progressive. Scrolling down a bit, in "other matches" it gives Christian Democracy and Distributism, which are labels I'm more likely to identify with, so fair enough. Contrary to a lot of these types of political tests I feel like this one actually captured my political values pretty well.

  • 93% match to Eco-Conservatism
  • Your internal tension: Liberty and Traditionalist at the same time;
    Only 15 out of the 223 ideologies in the catalogue hold both of these positions. Closest matches: Conservative Liberalism, Mutualism, Minarcho-Mutualism
  • Countries closest to you Old Swiss Confederacy, Lebanon, Holy Roman Empire, Bhutan
  • Countries furthest from you: Soviet Union, North Korea, Maoist China
  • Figures Closest to you: Pope Leo XIV, Jacques Maritain, G.K. Chesterton, J.R.R. Tolkien
  • Figures furthest from you: Joseph Stalin, Joseph Goebbels, Che Guevara

Libertarian militarism for me. As a strongly pro 2A libertarian whose faith in open borders has been fairly well broken by the last decade, that sounds about right. It looks like I'm a little too nationalist for a full libertarian sweep, but otherwise stick pretty close to the expected branding.

Radical Centrism. I knew it!

I just think that, like so many multiple choice questionnaires, a lot of my answers are "it depends".

Furthest from you:
Ezra Heywood, Individualist anarchist

Spot on, anarchism is very stupid.

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