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High-larious.

Imagine leaving Texas because you think it's too liberal.

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?

I feel sorry for the children.

For people who didn't read the whole article, you really should. It touches on the fact that Derek Huffman ended up sent to the front lines in the war against Ukraine, and for a while there were rumors he'd died there.

It also talks about another family that did the same thing and immediately got swindled out of everything, with Russia's famously corrupt law enforcement doing nothing to help them against the swindler.

Good. Fuck them hope he dies in the meat grinder with the rest of the Russian military dipshits. Christian fascists dont deserve a peaceful life; they bring such persistent suffering to LGBTQ people for the past 2000 years, that I hope no religious group including these types of Christians never sees peace.

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.

https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2018/06/13/how-religious-commitment-varies-by-country-among-people-of-all-ages/

https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/e6f791bf-9311-421e-b2c4-6856c7922b77.webp

Religion very important to them

US: 53%

Russia: 16%

https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/5914b607-bdf5-4238-883e-46fd51f4c52a.webp

Weekly worship attendance

US: 36%

Russia: 7%

Aside from Poland, where 42% of respondents attend weekly, every other European country in this analysis has rates of attendance at or below 25%.

Clearly Poland needs to start advertising, because Russia probably isn't where you want to go if you're on the hunt for a particularly religious environment, especially if your starting point is the US. Now, Poland's gonna have a more-specifically-Catholic environment, which I bet isn't what they are, but I bet that they aren't Russian Orthodox either, so...

Derek Huffman said he joined the Russian army to expedite the family’s applications for Russian citizenship, as well as to show support for their new homeland.

Service guarantees citizenship!

Sorry Ukraine - didn't mean to let our trash blow into your yard.

Please kill him swiftly before he has the chance to do any tangible damage to your nation. May his corpse nourish a few sunflowers.

So they moved to a redneck colony run by a notorious professional Russian propagandist in an autocratic nation. Yikes.

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.

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.

lmfao what is this. i want to know what harm LGBTQ people cause day to day that they were scared and had to leave.

This belongs to leopardsatemyface, no?

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.

is liberal culture really a threat to anybody? like seriously how

Love that for them!

“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,”

Addition though subtraction.

HAHAHAHAHA. That's it, I have no more words to say about this peaceful and Christ-loving family that would kill people if they could.

To the complete surprise of absolutely nobody.

Congratulations, you guys got the illiberal society you dreamed of. Enjoy.

Poor kids, though.

FYI, this is the same family as the article from the summer. I was uncertain as I had expected they had last been in Russian longer than a few months.

A snopes article. https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/07/22/derek-huffman-russia-war/

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.

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