when someone moves from house to house, mooching off of people. they still own a car and a cellphone, they are just too lazy to pay rent; homeless most of the time
dude, steve needs a place to stay, you have an extra room, right?
yeah, but I'm not letting that moderately homeless riff raff in my den.
yeah, but I'm not letting that moderately homeless riff raff in my den.
by sir_gushing_holes_thethird July 27, 2010
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Not to be confused with centrist (who reject all left and right wing theories completely) moderates try to 'meet in the middle' and tout themselves as superior to either extremes, condemning both, particularly the left, as impractical.
The moderate may adopt talking points from either wing but generally tend to err on the side of conservatism, which you may expect given that so much of moderate rhetoric focuses on practicality as opposed to value.
The largest existing criticism of moderate political thought is that it considers the right and left to have equal credibility, even in their most extreme manifestations.
On one end, the furthest extreme of the left calls societal reconstruction; the rightmost for genocide. This is the position that says that the counter-protesters in Charlottesville are just as bad as those chanting 'Jews will not replace us' and went on to murder a woman and injure 14 others by running them down with a car. To present the view that society should serve all the people in it as being equal as all non-whites are inferior is cruel and disingenuous to the extreme.
To call for 'compromise' for the sake of practicality is to say that violence is permissible if it serves to maintain the status quo. That isn't practical, it's lazy.
Not to be confused with centrist (who reject all left and right wing theories completely) moderates try to 'meet in the middle' and tout themselves as superior to either extremes, condemning both, particularly the left, as impractical.
The moderate may adopt talking points from either wing but generally tend to err on the side of conservatism, which you may expect given that so much of moderate rhetoric focuses on practicality as opposed to value.
The largest existing criticism of moderate political thought is that it considers the right and left to have equal credibility, even in their most extreme manifestations.
On one end, the furthest extreme of the left calls societal reconstruction; the rightmost for genocide. This is the position that says that the counter-protesters in Charlottesville are just as bad as those chanting 'Jews will not replace us' and went on to murder a woman and injure 14 others by running them down with a car. To present the view that society should serve all the people in it as being equal as all non-whites are inferior is cruel and disingenuous to the extreme.
To call for 'compromise' for the sake of practicality is to say that violence is permissible if it serves to maintain the status quo. That isn't practical, it's lazy.
Usage; Don't bother arguing with him--John's a moderate.
The moderate finds that conceding justice to violence is a necessary evil if society is to be maintained.
The critical realises that no society worth maintaining would permit violence so that it may be upheld.
The moderate finds that conceding justice to violence is a necessary evil if society is to be maintained.
The critical realises that no society worth maintaining would permit violence so that it may be upheld.
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Someone who doesn't believe anything in the bible, doesn't go to church, sins on a regular basis, but believes god exists anyway. Pretty much an atheist who hasn't read the bible or ever considered that their parents lied to them.
Atheist: Have you actually read the bible?
Moderate Christian: No, but my priest said it was a good book because it says we shouldn't kill people or steal things.
Atheist: It also says you should beat your slaves and rape a virgin to make her your wife. Plus, every culture in existence has had provisions against killing and stealing.
Moderate Christian: It's my belief, you intolerant Atheist! You're so intolerant. Why can't you let me believe what I want? You're always coming to my door, buying tv networks, and teaching little kids that they will suffer forever if they aren't atheists.
(Agnostic joins in): Yeah you atheists are so intolerant. You can't prove there isn't a god.
Atheist: I wasn't trying to. I was only saying the bible is a pretty bad book; it condones slavery, rape, and mass murder.
Agnostic: INTOLERANT!!!!
Moderate Christian: No, but my priest said it was a good book because it says we shouldn't kill people or steal things.
Atheist: It also says you should beat your slaves and rape a virgin to make her your wife. Plus, every culture in existence has had provisions against killing and stealing.
Moderate Christian: It's my belief, you intolerant Atheist! You're so intolerant. Why can't you let me believe what I want? You're always coming to my door, buying tv networks, and teaching little kids that they will suffer forever if they aren't atheists.
(Agnostic joins in): Yeah you atheists are so intolerant. You can't prove there isn't a god.
Atheist: I wasn't trying to. I was only saying the bible is a pretty bad book; it condones slavery, rape, and mass murder.
Agnostic: INTOLERANT!!!!
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by FaithInTheSystem February 20, 2010
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By the way, "Proud Conservative," you're exactly the type of person who makes politics such a miserable shithole.
by Anonymous June 16, 2003
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by adolphas December 20, 2008
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