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."
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
Some of em are cool, but a lot yeah
I wish they would all leave. Make Russia Atheist Again.
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
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!!!
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
Unless they are a closet homosexual who struggles with their sexuality then LGBTQ shouldn’t really impact them at all.
Oh, they are …
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
Imagine leaving Texas because you think it’s too liberal.
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.
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.
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??
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.
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.
Gather ye by the cursed lake and wasteland.
Plus with Romney, I’m not positive on the whiteness of Mormons.
Illinois being more religious than ohio kinda surprises me
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.
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
The leopards have a feast tonight.
Oh boy everybody, he used AI, lets all get irrationally angry over a meme!
I didn’t actually generate it with AI myself. I stole it from someone else’s reply on IMGUR forever ago.
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
But… but…but…AI took our jerbs!
Funny given that liberal is not a culture.
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
lmfao what is this. i want to know what harm LGBTQ people cause day to day that they were scared and had to leave.
The amount of idiocy demonstrated by the adults in that article is fucking mind-boggling.
One family moved to Russia with only $50K to their name, for their family of 5, and didn’t research the public education requirements for their sons ahead of time.
It tracks that people this fucking stupid would have this level of hate for “non-traditional” relationships.
No way Russia is so uncivilized they don’t speak English, right?
I guess that was their thought process, if there was any at all
Hey, straight up: good fucking riddance. We’ve got enough problems with malignantly idiotic conservatives and racists and fascists. I won’t shed a single tear if they want to move to a (more) authoritarian country.
Good. Bye Felicia. It’s going to be funny when they realize Russia isn’t all white.
It’s funny how often I see a headline like this, then think to myself “now, now, let’s be reasonable and give them the benefit of the doubt because crazy situations happen every day…”
aside: You see, growing up in white conservative christian america, my brain has this old deep conditioning to see people who are different looking or who have different priorities in life than me and think of how stupid/worthless that makes them. I have those neural pathways pretty safely contained, but it’s important to do maintenance.
Anyways, I often think to myself oh hey they aren’t just mind numbingly stupid and surely there’s something else going on. Then I read the details and it’s like every sentence pushes my face closer to my silly optimistic assumptions bellowing “search your feelings, you know it to be true” like some really heavy-handed metaphor about feeling the call of the dark side.
Nah, I guess I do know how stupid they are. But their stupidity isn’t gonna frustrate me into being like them again.
You see, growing up in white conservative christian america, my brain has this old deep conditioning to see people who are different looking or who have different priorities in life than me and think of how stupid/worthless that makes them.
It’s so interesting to see how other people’s experiences of white conservative Christian America can be so different from mine. I have this deep conditioning to see people who are different looking or have different priorities and be curious about their choices and experiences, specifically because of my upbringing in a little country church.
In fact, I remember being cautioned to pull back on the reins a bit when I was in my “angry conservative” stage in college—back during W’s first term, when I was super far right for the time but still had beliefs that would make me a “radical lib’rul” today. Some of the people I went to church with were like, “yeah, I can see that your heart is in the right place, but you’re kinda over the top about this and this.” Most of what brought me out of that phase was meeting people who were different from me, but another part was Christian people I trusted saying, “that’s too much.”
That’s part of why I had so much cognitive dissonance when Christians started supporting Trump; it felt out of step with everything we had ever been taught as children, and even as young adults.
I’ve come to terms with the fact that I (and my parents, more recently) just aren’t going to be welcomed back into that community again, because it has gone so deeply maga. But it wasn’t like that when I was a kid.
their stupidity isn’t gonna frustrate me into being like them again.
That’s a really great way to say it. I feel that way myself, though I couldn’t put it into words.
It’s so interesting to see how other people’s experiences of white conservative Christian America can be so different from mine.
I agree. It’s interesting and enriching to hear about the different starting points in life that led us to similar places.
my upbringing in a little country church.
It looks like you had one of those pockets of “true”
scotsmanchristians! /sMy family was catholic. I was surrounded by miserable conservatives before it was cool! :D
