As many as 1,500 “ideological immigrants,” including 127 Americans, have applied for temporary residence in Russia in the last year.
Two years ago, Derek and DeAnna Huffman were desperate to leave Humble, a suburb of Houston. Their three daughters, they believed, were being brainwashed by public school and mainstream media to support LGBTQ rights. American culture in general no longer offered white people the same opportunities as other races, they said.
The couple yearned to live in a place that shared their “Christian values” and where they “weren’t going to be discriminated against” as white, politically-conservative Christians.
So in March, the Huffmans became the first family to move to a community planned for fellow English-speakers some 30 miles west of Moscow, a project they had been following online run by long-term American expat and former Kremlin-sponsored RT host Tim Kirby. The family is among a small but growing number of Americans who have moved to Russia because the United States, in their opinion, has become too “woke."
High-larious.
The Hares’ sons, 17, 15, and 12, have had difficulty adapting to life in Russia, and the two older boys want to return to America, according to their father. They feel isolated and are disappointed that school is not an option since Russia requires students to pass a language test to study in public schools.
[…] Leo Hare said it probably “would have been a dealbreaker” if they knew about the school restrictions.
Go to Russia because you can’t stand gay people.
Don’t learn the language.
Apparently don’t inform yourself at all about the country.
I can’t make fun of this whole thing. I can’t even wrap my head around what they were thinking.
Vote for trump to get rid of immigrants cause "“They don’t talk no English, and dey terk err jerbs!” and then immigrate to Russia and complain that they want you to speak Russian. Also don’t research any of these before you make a completely life changing decision for your kids. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ They clearly look capable of self education so no probs.
Atleast maybe this dramatic idiocy is a wake-up call for their kids who otherwise might have turned into your run of the mill red necks.
They weren’t thinking. They were gulping down the propaganda and gorging themselves on the fear-mongering. And now their kids are fucked over because of it.
It’s kind of crazy the number of people that go to other countries and don’t intend to learn the local language
Thinking wasn’t part of this.
is liberal culture really a threat to anybody? like seriously how
I’m in the socialist hellhole Canada and my day is spent chasing away genderfluid canvassers trying to convert me and my kids to they/them and then when my kids get to school they’re forced to have group sex led by cross dressers!
/s and really sad the state of the world I have to put that
Fellow Canadian, got my mandatory estrogen injection yesterday.
Also /s just in case.
You got mandatory estrogen? Why for me the government (yes the entire government) came to castrate me because of forced genital mutilation! Wokeism strikes again
It’s the reason my son won’t talk to me.
- Elon
sons
I saw a trans woman walking on the street the other day and it traumatized me. I have nightmares to this day and my psychiatrist says no drugs will ever help me get over it.
Wokism ruined my life
I have felt the same way since I saw first Trans Am
MAH KRISSHAN VALUWS!!!
Leo Hare thought their troubles were over when their landlord’s son offered a generous interest rate for investing their $50,000 nest egg in what he described as a car import business. But they only saw one payment before he stopped sending them money and refused to return their money, Leo Hare said.
Wow, trained to believe every dumb shit presented to them, huh
I wish all of the Christians would go to russia
I wish they would all leave. Make Russia Atheist Again.
Some of em are cool, but a lot yeah
Unless they are a closet homosexual who struggles with their sexuality then LGBTQ shouldn’t really impact them at all.
Oh, they are …
I’m so fuckin tired of this trope that the people who hate gays and are outright dangerous to us are just in the closet. The number of people this actually applies to is a small minority and yet it’s brung up every time anyone remotely homophobic makes the news. Like it can be explained away that the root cause someone wishes to enact violence is he fantasizes about taking it up the butt, as if there’s something wrong or perverted about that, and not just a way of life for millions of people.
As many as 1,500 “ideological immigrants,” … have applied for temporary residence in Russia in the last year.
This is a hilariously small number for a big country, why are they even touting this?
We’re getting the same reporting on South African refugees to the states. A lot of it is local propaganda, playing up how horrible it is in foreign countries by comparison
The trash takes out itself, a self cleaning oven, survival of the fittest brains :D Fantastic to see it live in action
I wish I could believe this but the reality is fascism drives away competence so we have an executive regime that can’t figure out how to have a top secret meeting on discord without accidentally inviting random journalists
The leopards have a feast tonight.
Oh boy everybody, he used AI, lets all get irrationally angry over a meme!
It’s pretty clear, that collectively, we don’t like AI. Getting down voted for violating a well established social norm seems pretty tame as far as consequences go.
I only post my AI from Russian lemmy instances
Yeah I think this is an OK usage for AI. Just illustrates a meme that normally exists in verbal form. This isn’t replacing an artist or anything. It’s good for a quick chuckle.
Nah. Shitty memes are great. If all you can do is some shitty mspaint, that’s better than any llm art just by virtue of it having thought behind it
Oh I agree. But if you’re on your phone and think of something, even shitty memes are hard to make. On the computer it’s different.
I didn’t actually generate it with AI myself. I stole it from someone else’s reply on IMGUR forever ago.
But… but…but…AI took our jerbs!
Next Up: 2026; American Tankie simps for CCP, moves to PRC and get drafted into PLA to invade Taiwan
It’s gonna happen
Funny given that liberal is not a culture.
Feenstra family much?
Imagine leaving Texas because you think it’s too liberal.
They could try Syria next!
Humble is about 45 minutes from the center of Houston. It’s definitely becoming a victim of urban sprawl.
Texas in general is a shithole though that only cares about personal freedom when it’s convenient for business owners.
So funny Christians feel persecuted and like they don’t have personal freedom. They want the Bible in the classroom, 10 commandments on the wall, drag queens to stop performances, and folks with brown skin deported but heaven forbid someone teaches their children they are free to love whomever they want or be whoever they want.
Yes, that’s denying them the freedom to be ignorant, superstitious, greedy, sociopathic idiots and be rewarded for it.
Texas in general is a shithole though that only cares about personal freedom when it’s convenient for business owners.
Is there another version of IRL conservatism?
Yeah, the one where your forced to move to Russia because you don’t have the capital be be an individualist where you spawned
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/09/16/how-religious-is-your-state/
Religious profile of Mississippi
1st most religious state overall
61% (1st) say religion is very important in their lives
54% (1st) say they attend religious services at least monthly
62% (1st) say they pray daily
74% (1st) say they believe in God or a universal spirit with absolute certainty
50% in Mississippi are highly religious, based on an overall scale of religiousness
There was a much easier and better choice than Russia if they wanted to up their “more Christian environment” game.
They also are the poorest state, they have the worst education, and last I checked the highest murder rate in the country, they also have probably the highest ratio of black to white because they brought in so many slaves.
They seem to be the nicest Americans though. At least at face value. America has this traditional image of being a very friendly people, and Mississippi might be at the top of the states for that.
The roads suck ass. People joke that if a woman in Mississippi has all of her teeth she is considered a princess.
Seeing groups hated by everyone else is always interesting to my morbid curious mind. Mississippi is the perfect example of an extremely poor state in the wealthiest nation in history. For the past 100 years pretty much every politician has hated Mississippians like most Americans and the neglect of the people there is astonishing. The ones who still have a little class are pure survivors.
It was named after a native American tribe or word like many places down here, it was one that one of my ancestors was part of or that same general group. She was actually royalty in the tribe. The tribes from that area were pretty cool. One of the few examples of a truly matriarchal, and somewhat polyamorous and very peaceful societies in history. You can still see those genes floating around in the friendliness and general respect for women in the south, and also the often suppressed somewhat gender fluidity of many in the south.
One of the great ironies of history is in the past, these parts of the world where there was fertile farmland used to be the most desirable and best spots. Now they are some of the worst because of industrialization and high global temperatures making the south nearly unbearable to live in.
Well anyways I’m done with my little bit of history you didn’t ask for.
Does this include experiences from living there? Not that you can’t be trusted if it’s just from history books. I just find all this to be so interesting, and would be nice to hear it’s from both.
I’ve never lived there but a few miles away and my mother is from there with her family. I knew a few people who lived in the state.
Too many black people in Mississippi. Even if they are religious. Highest amount of African Americans percentage wise in the US.
But that’s the wrong kind of religious.
But Orthodox Christian is fine??
If someone’s opinions are entirely formed by Russian propaganda memes then yeah. This guy didn’t pick Russia at random he chose it because he was influenced.
It doesn’t matter to my perspective. The history of religion is for sub groups to spilt off over inconsequential differences, make up different doctrines and eventually go to war over them. It’s an expression of Authoritarians and cult behavior, and what leads to some of the greatest suffering that mankind has ever inflicted upon itself.
These families wanted to filter themselves to a sub group that’s a distinction without a difference.
Gather ye by the cursed lake and wasteland.
Plus with Romney, I’m not positive on the whiteness of Mormons.
Meanwhile, only 13% of Russians go to church, mosque, etc. regularly. Religion is not their reason to go there.
Yeah, but the people in the article said the real reason explicitly: LGBT is illegal there.
In the US we still have a lot of first amendment rights and we (all) still have the protection of Lawrence v Texas.
Illinois being more religious than ohio kinda surprises me
Illinois is funky because about a quarter of the state (by land area) is heavily influenced by Chicago but the rest of the state is just generic rural Midwest dotted with small railroad towns and farming communities
I feel like that’s because Chicago is all people hear of. The rest of Illinois is most definitely not that.
Meanwhile Ohio has the 3CS (Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus) and smaller cities like Akron, Toledo, Dayton, Youngstown, Athens, etc.
Aren’t these the kind of people who’d get mad at immigrants in the US if they don’t speak English? Why don’t they learn proper Russian and integrate?
Because it wasn’t ever actually about that, of course.
Cause Jesus spoke English, duh.
/s
I feel sorry for the children.
They will either be brainwashed into being good little Russian breeders, or end up on pornhub.
Or dead in a ditch in Donetsk.
Both is possible.
