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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.
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.
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
is liberal culture really a threat to anybody? like seriously how
It's the reason my son won't talk to me.
sons
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!!!
Unless they are a closet homosexual who struggles with their sexuality then LGBTQ shouldn't really impact them at all.
Oh, they are ....
Funny given that liberal is not a culture.
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
Next Up: 2026; American Tankie simps for CCP, moves to PRC and get drafted into PLA to invade Taiwan
It's gonna happen
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.
Good. Bye Felicia. It’s going to be funny when they realize Russia isn’t all white.
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.
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.
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 tard was lied into joining the military. Where bro has no understanding of the language. I’m surprised he isn’t dead yet.
You really don't need much language to be efficient drone fodder.
Genuinely dogs have the capacity to learn the vocabulary needed to be a frontline soldier.
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.
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.
I like to load up their channel and call them traitors and talk about drone strikes.
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.
Congratulations, you guys got the illiberal society you dreamed of. Enjoy.
Poor kids, though.
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!