cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/38217713
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."
I dislike this article because it’s going to prevent people who can read from doing the same.
Imagine being a white Evangelical in Texas of all places and somehow believing that YOU are the one being “discriminated” against.
There are tens of trans people in texas and they are starting to take over.
It’s how it works, they convince you every week that you are the minority, no one is listening. You just never look around to see that the actual minorities are no where in sight
Read the article and still confused… They moved to Russia and they got exactly what one should expect when moving to Russia. I’m not sure why they’re not ecstatic by the authentic experience they’re getting.
Another American family that also went to Russia is featured in the article:
“It was the promise of a country that would not promote the LGBT agenda. We liked the fact that LGBT is basically outlawed here in official ways,” Leo Hare, 62
They say their initial plan to rent an apartment in Moscow fell through just as they boarded the plane from Texas, and the family spent a bitterly cold winter caring for chickens, horses and rabbits on a farm 70 miles south of Moscow in exchange for free board. At one point, they even had to bring the goats and their newborns inside their cabin to keep the animals from dying.
They are literally living indoors with livestock to avoid LGBT references in popular culture they experienced in America.
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.
Sometimes gullible people just broadcast that fact themselves.
That’s like some american dad joke where people sit in a shed surrounded by livestock and feces, almost freezing to death going: at least there are no gays here.
At some point they’ll realize Putin is not running a car import business either and could maybe see through a bit of the fog, but they won’t. Willful blinders don’t come off.
They would rather deny their children schooling than admit they were wrong and foolish.
I hope more join them.
Given how little sympathy they show to children groomed by ISIS, I’ll give them even less sympathy as they were adults making that choice.
Well they got exactly what they wanted, a place where people don’t give a shit about anyone else. Fuck em.
Kind of funny reading this, conaidwriht it is true but also not like US cares about their citizens. So, in the end, they changed one shitty country for another.
lol
There is simply no medicine against sheer stupidity. Let them go to Russia or wherever else, and improve the quality of your gene pool.
You can’t fix stupid. At least they have Jesus, amen.
They have Orthodox Jesus. Don’t ask me the difference.
Orthodox Jesus is willing to overlook the sixth commandment as long as the person you’re murdering is Ukranian.
Is it just sunk-cost fallacy that keeps them in denial, or is their view of reality truly that warped? At any rate, if there are more people that want to leave America because it’s “too woke”, then godspeed.
I think with the fascists in power they are starting to like it there now.
Will their children be able to come back when they become adults? I hope they’re not trapped over there, they aren’t responsible for their parents poor decisions.
Unless they renounced US citizenship they can always go back.
not if they sold everything in the us and MOVED TO RUSSIA, it will be next to impossible to set up a home again the states, much like how trump shipped the afrikaaners to the usa with no help at all, and s africa told them"your on your own"
Yeah, but that applies to all Americans, not just people that come in from abroad.
