Originally posted by Adam_PoE Two years ago, I noted:
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In 1997, the president emeritus of the Illinois-based anti-LGBTQ hate group the Howard Center for Family, Religion, and Society; and two Russian Orthodox sociology professors in Russia; formed the World Congress of Families to unite a global Christian right.
They immediatley began trafficking in anti-LGBTQ politics as a way to mobilize religious nationalists around the world to destabilize Western alliances and advance the geopolitical interests of Russia.
In 2014, the managing director of WCF said that "Russia is the hope for the world right now," because of its anti-LGBTQ laws.
Conservatives love Putin and Russia, because they hate LGBTQ people more than they love America.
Seven years ago, I predicted:
Originally posted by Adam_PoE
I expect TrumpTards to become good little Soviet patriots.Evangelical Christians, having been losing ground in the culture wars, have been shifting their focus to Russia for years now, hailing its authoritarian oppression of Atheists, LBGTs, and Muslims as a paragon of "traditional values."
Why do you think so many Republicans have ties to Russia, and are more willing to collude with Russia to win elections, than to cooperate with Democrats to benefit Americans?
The days of better dead than red are over for conservatives.
Today, that prediction appears to be coming true:
The Moscow Times: "Russia Building Village for Conservative U.S. Ex-Patriots"Russian authorities will launch construction of a village outside Moscow for conservative-minded Americans and Canadians next year, the state-run RIA Novosti news agency reported Thursday. Russia has for years positioned itself as a bastion of "traditional" values in contrast with Western liberalism as its relations with the West have deteriorated over its 2014 annexation of Crimea and 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Timur Beslanguro, a migration lawyer at Moscow's VISTA Foreign Business Support, claimed that "around 200 families" wish to emigrate to Russia for "ideological reasons."
"The reason is propaganda of radical values: Today they have 70 genders, and who knows what will come next," Beslangurov said, echoing President Vladimir Putin's frequently deployed grievances against Western countries' comparative gender freedom.
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The patriarch of a right-wing Canadian family of 11 had enough of LGBT people in his country. "We didn't feel safe for our children there in the future anymore," father Arend Feenstra told Russian media. "There's a lot of left-wing ideology, LGBTQ, trans—just a lot of things that we don't agree with that they teach there now, and we wanted to get away from that for our children."
So Arend and his wife Anneesa sold everything they had, and took donations on their social media platform from fellow right-wingers, to move to Russia and raise eight of their nine children with "orthodox" values.
Russian officials assured them that they would help get them established, and even help them buy a farm. But three weeks after their move, the Russian bank where they moved all their money immediately seized all of their assets.
"The amount of money seemed suspicious," Arend states in a February 9th video, not realizing that most Russians outside of Putin's circle are dirt poor. As a result, the family did not have money to live on, and the Russian officials offering to help them disappeared.
Since no one in the family speaks Russian, they have had a difficult time trying to argue for their money, as Russia does not require any bank, or any business, to hire English translators.
In a since-deleted video on the family's "Countryside Acres" YouTube channel, Aneesa said, "I'm very disappointed in this country at this point. I'm ready to jump on a plane and get out of here. We've hit the first snag where you have to engage logic in this country and it's very, very frustrating."
After a visit from Russian officials, the video was deleted, and Arend quickly posted an apology video to the Countryside Acres channel, saying that his wife misspoke.
In that video, he reiterated that Russia is great, and that he hoped to resolve the issue with the bank. Commenters pointed out that the bank will likely never release their funds, and it is more likely that he will be recognized as a foreign agent.
Before emigrating to Russia, the Feenstras complained about immigrants who do not know the language, who have no money, and who expect the government to hand them a house and a job. How the tables have turned.