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serious answer not that its worth anything
nietzsche does not propose a new morality in that he doesn't detail what this morality is. his central thesis is that our currently accepted western christian morality is nihilistic in nature, born out of ressentiment of the slave and opposed to strength and joy and other essential values of life found in the master and inverts lifes natural hierarchy via the bad conscience and its proliferators (the priest, the church, the state, etc). at first this opposition to life was grounded in god and heaven (ie. the weak are holy in the eyes of god and are granted access to the afterlife so long as they accept god) and perpetuated by the idea that all humans are sinners (all are guilty must also repent to enter heaven) and that life itself is condemnable (heaven is better than life), but with the death of god (an inevitable conclusion to the former thought) nietzsche foresaw people clinging to these nihilistic christian values without the gravity of god to give them purpose, giving birth to the last man (in todays world the closest example would be atheists who are still dogamtic moralists and uphold these christian values without recognizing them as such). so nietzsche envisioned the overman as a new race of man who could overcome these christian values that are now human (all too human) and create a morality which affirms life instead of negates it. to do so one must first evaluate life with a genealogical hand, and via a process of selection (exemplified in the eternal return) negate the negating, nihilistic forces which currently consume us.
he recognized of course that such a radical transformation cannot happen in one man, and is a process of culture, hence why he calls himself, his readers, and zarathustra the fathers of the overman--but not the overman himself. he is the father of this new morality, because he was the first to create a true critique of the former--but he does not form the new morality itself. he only shows what it should not and cannot be.
this is obviously a simplification and if you really want to understand nietzsche just read him. at the very least read beyond good and evil and genealogy of morals. but you should keep going from there, if you continue, read everything else but finish with zarathustra. after that i highly recommend deleuze's nietzsche and philosophy, its not perfect and stretches some ideas pretty far but does a great job of illuminating the central aspects of nietzsches thought and how they all tie together.
he was not a nihilist, a hedonist, or a marxist and was highly opposed to all of these things.

completely and totally unironic