Thanos test: how you would choose 50% of the world to kill?
Capitalism: bottom 50%
Communism: top 50%
Libertarianism: all-against-all. 50% left standing wins.
Anarchism: random 50%
Liberalism: debate till nature does the dirty work
Conservatism: 50% who look least like you
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Progressivism has the best trick. Do futile things and reproach people who indulge in the Thanos thought experiment while waiting for nature to do the dirty work. Then reproach them for letting it happen.
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Authoritarianism: Suppress information that the Thanos test is approaching, secure your 1% cronies on a space rocket. Let the rest be libertarian.
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It’s a pretty good test. Most ideologies seem to map to a clear algorithm. I’m probably equal parts all of these.
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Modernism: kill 50% on bottom of spreadsheet
Post-modernism: kill 50% that lose the language power game
Postrationalism: kill 50% w the wrong vibes idk
meta-modernism: debate which measure should pick, while the postmoderns kill 90% cause math is a construct anyway
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Mediocrats: the 50% leanest and most optimized
Survival of the spandreliest
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Modernism: kill 50% on bottom of spreadsheet
Post-modernism: kill 50% that lose the language power game
Postrationalism: kill 50% w the wrong vibes idk
meta-modernism: debate which measure should pick, while the postmoderns kill 90% cause math is a construct anyway
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Fundamentalism: kill the lower 50% of each body
Paleo: kill the upper 50% of each body
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Douglas Adams proposed eliminating the middle managers and other useless jobs… of course it turned out that all Earth humans were descended from the eliminated useless ones from a different civilization…
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