Imagine leaving Texas because you think it's too liberal.
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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.
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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.
Too many black people in Mississippi. Even if they are religious. Highest amount of African Americans percentage wise in the US.
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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.
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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.
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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.
I feel horrible for the kids, they get forced to follow their parents mind-boggling stupidity.
Derek and DeAnna on the other hand are adults who thought out, planned, and followed through with their idiocy.
Politics aside; how could you possibly think moving your family to a country that's actively at war with its immediate neighbor, and struggling to find bodies to throw on the front lines, is even remotely a good idea.
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.
I would genuinely be more surprised to hear they were left to live peacefully.
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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.
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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://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...
They could have moved to Ethiopia and been rocking that 82%, if it werent for that pesky racism point theyre standing on
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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!
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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.
Poor, poor white conservative Christians. Really sucks how every once in a while, they don't get to have their balls sucked by everyone. Once in a while.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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lmfao what is this. i want to know what harm LGBTQ people cause day to day that they were scared and had to leave.
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This belongs to leopardsatemyface, no?
More like "I ate my own face."
Leopards weren't that interested in my face, so I moved to a country with hungrier leopards.
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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.
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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
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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.
To the complete surprise of absolutely nobody.
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.
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.
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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/
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Congratulations, you guys got the illiberal society you dreamed of. Enjoy.
Poor kids, though.
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
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
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Good. Bye Felicia. It’s going to be funny when they realize Russia isn’t all white.
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