Canadian Fundie Family Moves to Russia to Escape Homos, Immediately Regrets It

Yes, I know it says “family of 11.” Evidently, one of their 9 children didn’t go to Russia with them.

HA HA! Enjoy your time in shithole Russia!

Our MAGATs should do this! Hell, I'll donate to a Go Fund Me to send them!

We should encourage all freedom loving MAGAts to move to Russia where they’ll get a strong, powerful leader and no homos! I’ll even pay to fly them there.

Wonkette's take on the same story. Amusing how quickly the husband deleted his wife's complaints about Russia and did his best to walk it all back.

Awwww

Every additional day they're stuck there, they're damning their kids to a bleaker and bleaker future. But hey, at least they got to own the homos!

Their public restroom predicament is also funny in light of their politics:

[quote]The Feenstras haven’t bothered to learn Russian first. “We were naive on that,” said Anneesa. “I needed to use the washroom, and on the doors said male and female, but I didn’t know which was which!”

[quote]“In America, that wouldn’t be a problem, it’s free-for-all in the bathrooms, but now in our world it matters!” Arend marveled.

This will end in tears.

[quote]“In America, that wouldn’t be a problem, it’s free-for-all in the bathrooms, but now in our world it matters!” Arend marveled.

Was the bathroom at their place back in Canada not gender neutral as well? Doesn't every family have "free-for-all" bathrooms?

Trust in haste, regret in leisure.

Great. Now if we could convince the worthless, racist, homophonbic, fascist 74 million US fools who voted for Trump in 2020 to follow suit....

[quote] The Feenstras haven’t bothered to learn Russian first.

That says it all. Entitled dumbasses.

Good

I feel somewhat sorry for the kids - it's much harder for them to get away now. It's likely that was obne of the points of it for daddy, of course.

What about the kid who didn't go with them?

At least they don't have to deal with immigrants who expect free housing and government handouts but don't speak the language!

[quote]Comment Award goes to Laughing Gravy: “I’ll bet back home they used to whine about immigrants who don’t know the language, who have no money, who expect the government to hand them a house and a job, and who complain when they don’t get everything they want.”

FAFO.

Russia doing favor for decadent West!

I smile to myself when idiots like this who think it's so awful in the US find out that all their little tantrums and demands are not only ignored, but actively punished in other countries.

I hope they enjoy their lives, short though they may be, in their new country.

In RA-SHA, you live like dog.

Womp fucking Womp!

He's smelling blinis, and that wife sure is homely-looking!

Hmmmm?

There was no room in the stable..

I wonder of they even know that, when you move to Russia, not only do you have to learn a new language, but an entirely new alphabet.

These folks are dumb as a box of hair.

*if*

Sorry.

He looks like he's repressing homosexual urges himself!

Being poor, isolated, unemployed and constantly at risk of death for saying the wrong thing seems a small price to pay for knowing your kids won’t be groomed by filthy homosexuals and trans people.

He had to get away from all of that temptation, r28!

Tara Reade is busy working her shift at the beet farm. They'll be joining her shortly.

How do you say "ha-ha" in Russian?

Reminds me of the first white settlers of 'America'. They were dropped off by unscrupulous ships, with the promise they'd be back with supplies in a few months. They never came back. The Priggish Pilgrims were digging holes in hills to shield from the bitter winter. The 'Indians' took pity on the starving palefaces and saved many lives.

Judging from my porn search history, there are indeed a great many active homosexuals in Russia.

Oh my, are they active! And usually in uniforms. And usually twins!

This would actually be a brilliant premise for a sitcom.

Oh, poor things. They had it coming.

I'll bet you with all those kids their taxes were next to nothing in Canada on top of having socialized medicine.

Russia can keep them, we don't want them back.

All those homos in Canada was too much temptation for the dad.

I need to know about the kid that got left behind.

The MAGA idiots say they'd rather be Russian than Democrats. I say send them over. They are so stupid and need an awakening - I guess they need to be woke!

Soon, those kids will be old enough to be forced to fight in the Russian army! Won't that be great.

I will be happy to take them under my wings and show them the Russia I know and love so well.

After the wife complained on social media they got a little visit from the local authorities... They have since gone radio silent

"You come see view from roof"😳

Iz good. Velcome to Mather Russia! Today relax, tomorrow start vork in computer task force. Ve have website for American gay boys to target with pro-Russia information. They call it Datalounge. Here is ration of vodka, comrade.

Maybe Tara Reade can lend a helping hand by becoming a nanny and showing them the ropes and doing some language tutoring? And spy for the authorities which would only confirm they're brain dead nincompoops (sp?)

^ "But, we're Christians, we don't drink"

"You vill"

Wait'll the kids try Krokodil. Good times!

I have no fucking empathy for them or their christofascist bullshit.

He!

All LGB gays who love to vote republican because they hate muslims and non-white immigrants please take note... 😁😘

What's the story about the one child that didn't go?

I hope that Justin Trudeau refuses them entry back into Canada.

They go to the BOTTOM of the list.

They aren't into magical thinking, r49.

[quote]They haven’t found a farm yet, but now all 10 of them are in a two-bedroom apartment, with no vehicle, and homeschooling. But they say it’s worth it because woke Canada is so bad. On the show “A Russian Opinion,” Arend said, “You’ve got the whole woke movement, where a traditional male is seen as toxic in the west. In many jobs it’s a hindrance to a good career, because they’re trying to pick people from colored backgrounds...minorities.”

[quote]“You're in the worst category possible,” empathized the host. “Because from what I can see you’re an alpha-type white male, who’s a farmer as well, so you’ve got the woke people after you, the vegans after you, you have the LGBTQ after you, you have literally everyone after you!”

The husband definitely looks like a repressed homosexual.

And the wife looks like a Russian peasant.

Now, wait a minute. It’s CANADA that has all the gay people? I’ve been looking in the wrong country all this time? And I don’t even speak French!

R34 A link please?

100% the dad is running from his own sexuality.

What dumbfucks. Did they not google anything about Russia before doing this? They’ve fucked up.

The gay dad found a wife that looks more mannish than he does. They definitely do it doggy style.

They're farmers from Saskatchewan? Exactly how many Gay people are in rural Saskatchewan?

[quote]"You come see view from roof"

Can you see Sarah Palin's house?

Can't Tucker help them out ?

Is Tucker still in Russia? Are his whereabouts known?

[quote] They're farmers from Saskatchewan?

Thank goodness this trash did not come from Nunavut.

If I had the money I would hire a private investigator to follow this guy around once back in Canada. This guy is a regular at public gloryholes, i can almost guarantee it

Why would Canada want to let these religious freaks come back?

If you hate tolerance, be prepared for intolerance.

[quote]once back in Canada.

Good luck with that, r62.

I hope the bitch ass Canadian government refuses to let them back in

[quote] ...last May Russian state TV announced the possibility of an expatriate village outside of Moscow for the hundreds of “conservative-minded” Americans and Canadians who Russia now claims want to emigrate for ideological reasons, declaring, “the reason is propaganda of radical values: Today they have 70 genders, and who knows what will come next!”

I'm all for it. Let's send on a one-way ticket to Russia all these aggressively ignorant, bigoted, so-called "Christian" fuckers who contribute no good value or decency to our society. They want to live under an authoritarian, fascist regime because they simply refuse to abide letting others of different values and identities live their lives as they see fit? Fine, let them follow in this moronic family's delusional example. Only three conditions: They all need to leave within the next 90 days, no round trips, and they must forfeit all their expatriate voting rights. Good riddance, mother fuckers.

I’m surprised that they thought the racist shithole of rural Saskatchewan was so unbearable that they thought Russia was a better option.

How could they move from a place where the capital rhymes with vagina?

Couldn't have happened to a nicer family heh.

What dumbasses. JFC

i want a poloni

What's Russia going to do with them?

Once they are done being paraded around as American dumb fucks, one can only assume they’ll take a ride on Putin’s elevator.

OP’s thread title reminded me of the late ‘80s/early ‘90s C-SPAN caller, who sounded like an elderly Black women, railing against “these Homos.” Since that particular call-in segment was about health insurance, it soon became apparent she was talking about HMOs.

They'll be used to make propaganda.

They need to march RIGHT into Moscow and DEMAND to speak to a manager.

[quote]Once they are done being paraded around as American dumb fucks

They aren't American, r74.

[quote]who think it's so awful in the US

THEY ARE CANADIAN

They will [italic]not[/italic] be welcome back in America, I know that much.

[quote]They will not be welcome back in America, I know that much

Are you retarted?

When people pull stunts like this or joining Al Queda they shouldn’t be allowed back in to their former country

[quote] They aren't American, r74.

Oh, dear.

[quote] So now they’re stranded, and their money is likely gone forever, and the dad and possibly the older sons can now be drafted to die in Ukraine. All because they hated gays and wanted to live amongst purer people.

Anyway, I had pizza for dinner tonight.

What dummies. Really stupid.

What was an American family doing living in Canada? And now Russia?

They sound very nomadic.

I do love it when comedy writes itself.

If they are Canadians, they are probably not MAGAs.

[Quote]THEY ARE CANADIAN

Can't Justin Bieber do something, like how Dennis Rodman helped with North Korean diplomacy?

[quote]But hey, at least they got to own the homos!

I’d like to start a GFM to help more anti-woke families “own the homos.”

R89 = Anne Frank

The husband is very photogenic, but the wife looks like a hag, and she’s a loose cannon to boot. A great story arc would be that she tragically dies from a mystery illness, but — in a bittersweet twist of fate — the husband falls in love with a lovely young Russian woman with a tight vagina that’s perfect for pumping out more Christian cannon fodder for Putin. The children adapting to the new mom would be a perfect story device to refresh the narrative, just as viewership for the tired old ex-pat spiel starts to wane.

The dad is probably annoyed that Grindr doesn’t work there as well.

Mother Russia, so supportive of family life!

[quote]I need to know about the kid that got left

According to a Redditor on the Ukraine board, it’s the eldest son, and he’s staying with his extended family in Canada, and the extended family thinks his parents are batshit crazy.

What a shitty thing to do to your kids.

[quote] the husband falls in love with a lovely young Russian woman with a tight vagina

Uh, more like a big Russian cossack who'll plow his repressed hole!

R97 That’s for behind the scenes only.

The irony, R17, is they were immigrants to Canada. Did they not do their research on Canadian law and society? And how entitled were they? But I guess when they complain about Canadian immigrants it’s only the brown ones. They’re just a couple of racist, homophobic shit-for-brains who deserve to get stuck for eternity in shithole Russia. And sadly they’ve probably doomed their sons into getting forced into the Russian military. He himself will probably get forced into fighting Ukraine.

Countdown until they beg Justin to airlift them back home.

That’d be an even bigger irony, R100, since I’m certain they’ve probably at some point characterized JT as the devil incarnate.

[Quote]Countdown until they beg Justin to airlift them back home.

I mean, he could use the good publicity. I'll talk to him.

R92 there’s a tight vagina in Russia?

Russia is a hellhole

^ If this idiot family had spent more time studying Russia instead of freaking out over a rainbow flag they would have known that, but noooo

I'd like to know what strain of Christianity they belonged to back in Canada, because it's a massive bitch to be anything other than Russian Orthodox over in Russia. Presumably that's not an issue for them?

r105 Too busy studying the Bible to study anything useful, like another language.

[quote]But hey, at least they got to own the homos!

I'd like to own one, but I think they outlawed that after the Civil War.

[quote]How could they move from a place where the capital rhymes with vagina?

To be fair, they tried to find a county with a capital city named Mulva.

Get OOT!

I feel for their kids, but the parents deserve the misery their hate has brought them.

Enjoy avoiding windows and tea..

Don't feel bad for the kids.

They're going to end up just like the parents.

In fact, they're probably already brainwashed.

R111 Apparently the oldest didn't fall for it. There's hope. They don't deserve the hell that awaits them.

They didn't even bother to learn any Russian before moving. Clearly not a well thought out plan on any level.

I wish all our DL racists, Trump supporters would move to Russia then let's hear about crime, immigration, trans..

[QUOTE]They didn't even bother to learn any Russian before moving.

The mother called it naive in their part. I'd call it something else. Who on earth fantasizes about moving to a foreign country permanently, strives toward achieving their dream, but don't crack a book open or invest in Russian language tapes? I suspect they think their neighbors will be Godly "Christians" and exercise charity with them. Hah! Guess again. Failure to do real research instead of listening to Stecen Seagal.

I wonder how they'll shield their kids from all the public drunks on the streets 24/7 🤔.

I’ve never heard of the “moving to Russia to start a homestead” movement before. Is it really a thing?

R9

This ̶w̶i̶l̶l̶ ̶e̶n̶d̶ ̶ has ended in tears.

Do these people not realize that Russia is basically a dictatorship?

That’s what they want, r118.

Just like in the USA that’s what republicans want.

It's such an isolated place. But I never believe the hype about any place until I see for myself.

Look at these gullible Canadians taking Russians on their trustworthy word (fingers crossed)!!!

r118, they do, but it's a 'Christian" dictatorship in their view , so it's ok

I have a feeling their brand of xtianity is not popular over there. Dad seems like a freak who wants complete control over his family so much that he isolates them.

Where did they get the notion they'd be receiving free land?

Jackie Hoffman can play the wife in the movie.

R119 They got their wish! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Are they Mennonite/Hutterite?

^ No, dummy/stupids

More like Quiverful. Think Duggars.

[quote]Where did they get the notion they'd be receiving free land?

From what I understand, they were going to use the money they got from selling their real estate in Canada to buy land in Russia, but the Russian bank froze their assets because of the suspiciously large amount.

[quote]R122 it's a 'Christian" dictatorship in their view

I’m sorry to be ignorant, but when did the whole Cold War “godless Russia” profile change?

What a bunch of stupid ignorant yahoos.

[quote]I’m sorry to be ignorant, but when did the whole Cold War “godless Russia” profile change?

When they started blackmailing the entire Repuglican party and flooding social media with their disinformation campaigns.

If they keep being ungrateful brats, the Feenstra family is going to go through some DE-FEENSTRA-TION things.

No matter how “orthodox” they claim to be, they will always be seen as degenerate, entitled Westerners who have been brainwashed by their country of origin. It’s like when conservative Californians relocate to Idaho. They think they are seen as heroic and are used by Republicans to promote Idaho as a bastion of anti-wokeness. But then they face the harsh reality that native Idahoans HATE Californians, and will never trust them no matter how conservative they claim to be. The unfortunate transplants eventually start being treated like a subclass of ignorant children who are constantly lectured, “Just make sure not to turn Idaho into California!” Except Russia is much, much worse.

I love how they talk about how bad the Canadian government is but in another video they mention going to a government ministry to request farmland. In Canada you just hire a realtor and call it a day or buy the land privately. I would never want to move to a nation that required that type of oversight.

Then they crammed 9 people into an apartment. They didn't give us an apartment tour because they know the optics must be horrible.

We never hear their nine kids in the video so who knows what threats they issue to silence their crotch fruit.

Finally, during the vid where the ask for farm land, the dad said there were so many options, BUT, the Russian government ministers needed time to review some that would be appropriate. Such bullshit. In the West, you just look online, contact the seller, and make an offer. Citizen or not.

These people sound crazy. I'm sure his wife will be at a bottom of one of the Russian rivers they were boasting about and one of his daughters will take her place. He gives me the vibes.

r123 - The Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) is ultra-anti evangelist, so this was an incredibly dumb move on the family's part. . The ROC and Putin have gotten quite cozy in the last several years to their mutual advantage.

I don’t know anything about this website, but article discusses history of Christianity in Russia.

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[italic]If someone from 1965 were to arrive in a time machine, there’s likely much about our current state of affairs that would shock them. But I cannot imagine anything that would be more confusing than the love affair between the U.S. Right and Russia—the extent of which has come into stark clarity in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine…

Almost immediately following the collapse of the Soviet Union, American evangelicals began to flood into Russia, with a generation coming of age on mission trips to Moscow and Bible-buying fundraisers for St. Petersburg. Instead of meeting with hostility from the Russian Orthodox Church, these Protestant firebrands were generally welcomed. Which is the part of the story that’s perhaps most difficult to explain; Orthodoxy as a faith tradition has spent centuries resolutely opposed to corruption or co-option from outside.

Especially since Russian Orthodoxy loves iconography, which evangelicals view as idolatrous.

R138 - In the last few years, several evangelist groups have been banned from Russia, as it is seen as cutting into their financial pie. Groups that haven't been doing this, the ROC is OK with them.

@r138, Interesting read

R139 - tell that to evangelicals and their worship of paintings of the tangerine fuhrer on horseback with Jesus.

The “kid” still in Canada is actually 22 years old, and his dad says he’s considering joining them in Russia but “isn’t quite ready yet.” Riiiiight.

Don't go to Russia! They like to detain outsiders.

[quote]Where did they get the notion they'd be receiving free land?

They had a coupon for free Russian that came with their purchase of Trump NFTs.

I can picture Dostoevsky writing a story about this kind of situation, they'd probably all suffer for about 500 pages before dropping dead or coming to Jesus.

[quote]I’ve never heard of the “moving to Russia to start a homestead” movement before. Is it really a thing?

r116 I recall making a thread about this last year when Russia put out a homestead call to conservative Americans. Never imagined Canadians would be the first to take the bite, but here we are.

*bait

R147, I wwed your OP. How prescient.

And I can't believe anybody is dumb enough to take Russian officials at their word!

[quote] Because from what I can see you’re an alpha-type white male

He’s a farmer from Saskatchewan who was doing so “well” he left it all behind.

I saw an interview of the dad by an American expat who lives in Russia. The couple are generational farmers whose parents came to Canada from the Netherlands for better economic opportunities. They actually relocated their farm to Ontario (from Saskatchewan) because they wanted to make more money. The dad has an idyllic view of farming that has a variety of revenue streams (meat, dairy, produce) while most successful family farms in the West specialize in one branch. They’re hoping they can do that in Russia. He barely touched on the culture wars in the interview.

Were these Canadians or Americans who had moved to Canada?

The wife mentioned not knowing male vs female in Russian on the bathroom doors - but then said "In America, they don't give a shit" or some such.

Dutch fundies seem rare.

They’re Dutch-Canadians, but several times the dad has referred to Canada as “America.” As in the continent, not the country.

Thanks R154. I don't think I've heard Canadians refer to themselves as Americans before. Interesting.

Might help take some of our stigma away if more of them did that (these lunatics excepted). Both husband and wife had Dutch parents? Weird.

That oldest son already looks like he has cookie-sniffing potential.

[quote]They’re hoping they can do that in Russia.

r151 I mean, they absolutely can do that there, they just won't get much money for it. Not nearly enough to support their eight kids without substantial state assistance. And Russia will want some of those kids to go to the front or serve the state in some other way, they won't get fleeced out of public money by these Canadians by getting nothing in return.

I meant to say they moved to Russia so that they can do “non-specialized” farming —. dairy, produce, etc.

I'm thinking about this way too much...

But does the bathroom door thing mean that the woman is too stupid to use Google translate on her phone? Or doesn't believe in smart phones??

Any interviews with the son who stayed behind?

r159 You expect that bitch to know how to type Cyrillic on her phone?

If you enter "English to Russian" and type the English word, the Russian translation will come up on the right, with the pronunciation (in English letters) beneath it.

In case any of you are thinking of emigrating...

R162 But if you see a word in Cyrillic and want to translate it to English, you would have to change your keypad to Cyrillic to translate the characters, right?

r162 Russian pronounced phonetically by someone who doesn't actually speak Russian can sound as complete gibberish to Russian speakers. Just listen to the heinous "Russian" attempted by Margo in the first episode in the most recent of For All Mankind. Totally unintelligible.

So no, that's not really a solution. Best to just show the nearby Russian your phone with the translation on it.

That would work. But for the bathroom door, you could just look at the Cyrillic for "men" or "male" and probably solve the existential bathroom crisis they've encountered. I'm sure everything else will work out swimmingly.

r165 When I was hanging around in the hospital hallway after my appendectomy last year, a young frau approached me and asked whether I spoke English and to please help her with the bathroom situation. I immediately asked if she's pictogram-illiterate (in a more polite way than that, of course). Well, we got to the toilets and it turns out there were no pictograms and the toilets were separated by function – one for staff and one for visitors, with both being unisex. So it's not always as simple as that.

R164, yes — the accent is essential, but the minority of adults who successfully learn to speak a new language never fully master the accent. Young kids have a knack for it, though. At least their kids have a chance of learning to speak Russian fluently, although their parents will always struggle, so much so that they’ll probably start hanging out with other English-speaking expats and never learn Russian. They’ll use their kids as translators instead.

But I'd assume if they weren't marked "men"/"women" then you wouldn't be walking into the wrong gender, most likely, though you might be using a "staff" bathroom when you shouldn't. I'm sure some official would handle the situation were you to slip up.

I didn't know they'd practically been invited (the other thread). I've always heard Russian people are good hearted and happy to help you, though they're not at smiley and surface friendly as North Americans.

[quote]I've always heard Russian people are good hearted and happy to help you, though they're not at smiley and surface friendly as North Americans.

As long as you’re straight and white.

Haha I read the wife's name as Amnesia instead of Aneesia.

Just avoid the gopniks and you'll be fine.

[quote] Russian pronounced phonetically by someone who doesn't actually speak Russian can sound as complete gibberish to Russian speakers. Just listen to the heinous "Russian" attempted by Margo in the first episode in the most recent of For All Mankind. Totally unintelligible. So no, that's not really a solution. Best to just show the nearby Russian your phone with the translation on it

Google translate has a little picture of a speaker at the bottom of the screen. You click on it and a lovely lady's voice pronounces the word for you. But I wonder if the patriarch lets his little woman have a smart phone? And certainly not the kids! Think of the things they might find on the Internet!

^ She has a phone, because she was the first to complain that all their money was frozen in Russian banks

Why do you believe it's still in her possession or, if it is all her contacts haven't been wiped? Husband controls everything. Regardless, if hubs isn't monitoring her, which Russian agency isn't on some level, if only to file the cursory report: they're numbskulls to an exponential factor?

R161 the translation question is actually not an issue. Google has had an updated translator feature for a long time. You just need the Google translate app. With the app you can type in words, the old way, AND take a photo of a word or phrase to translate.

It’s been outstanding when I’m abroad and get a dinner menu or something that’s not in English. Just open up translate and via my phone I can scan the menu and it’ll show me the English translations.

Technology can be rather impressive. I didn’t even know that was a feature until I was playing around with it while in Portugal.

But, this assumes her iPhone still works over there and the Google App isn’t disabled.

Ha-HA!!

Yup r167. Even Queen Marry if Denmark, who learned Danish as an adult and is fluent, gets lightly teased by her kids for her accent.

Their YouTube videos seem to suggest they like Russia so far. Dopes and very racist.

^ Doesn't matter, I can almost guarantee this story will NOT have a happy ending. Nothing about Russia ever does

They're obligated to like Russia if they want to see any of their cash back

R178 - what they’re learning is that Russia thrives on propaganda, and what they’re now doing is helping spread it. Or, rather, being forced to spread it. And by all means, I hope it entices other dipshit crazies to follow suit.

^ Good point, Russia is all about "useful idiots" and God knows they have an unlimited supply

R180 They're not getting their money back without a few bribes.

The Russian banking system is as corrupt as you'd expect, especially now that sanctions have turned them into the desperate gangsters they always wanted to be.

The ending of that video is ominous.

I hope they stay in Russia. Their kids too. Good riddance, I say. And whether they live or die, I care not.

[quote]Thanks [R154]. I don't think I've heard Canadians refer to themselves as Americans before. Interesting.

Reminds me of something I heard on a British TV show:

Brit (after hearing the other guy speak with an American accent): "What part of the States are you from?

Other guy: "The Canadian part."

[quote] Dutch fundies seem rare.

But Dutch tend to be hyper-aggressive and overly- sensitive. You’d think such tall people would be more chill and self-confident but their height has only increased their crazy.

Dutch fundies exist. BUT, they are entirely apolitical and exclusionary, think Amish. They don’t believe in work on sundays so the trains can have stations in their communities. But that is about as far as they go into the general culture of the country

[quote]Dutch fundies seem rare.

Dutch-American fundies, not so much.

[quote] But Dutch tend to be hyper-aggressive and overly- sensitive.

And let us not forget that the Afrikaners of South Africa, responsible for apartheid, are Dutch transplants.

As my uncle used to say to his Dutch wife...

"There's the Amsterdam Dutch, there's the Rotterdam Dutch and then there's you, the God damn Dutch"

I've known a number of Dutch people and they've generally been cunts.

Is there an organization that helps relocate conservatives to their new paradise? I’d love to donate.

Betsy DeVos is a cunt!

R194 How dare you! If I could get my yacht out of the Great Lakes, I'd mow you down with it!

R195 Which yacht Betsy? Don't you have 10 of them?

[quote]Is there an organization that helps relocate conservatives to their new paradise? I’d love to donate.

Can the new paradise be Mars?

[quote] Russian pronounced phonetically by someone who doesn't actually speak Russian can sound as complete gibberish to Russian speakers. Just listen to the heinous "Russian" attempted by Margo in the first episode in the most recent of For All Mankind. Totally unintelligible.

She just wasn’t falling down drunk enough, R164.

It was the Dutch who gave us THIS filth and debauchery.

That family has a lot to answer for.

Is the wife‘s looks typical of Dutch wonen?

R197 Get yowr ass to Mahs!

Normally scams get you to send the money overseas and then they ghost you. This is next level. The scammers convinced the family to move AND bring the money with them then ghosted them.

Well played Russian bureaucrats, well played.

You can bet that the kid who stayed behind is the gay one.

I'm available for "Not Without My Daughter II"!

Not without my Krokodil

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What an ugly family they won’t be missed

I would vote for R67 to be my president.

R208 Aww, shucks. 🥰😘

I 100% agree with r67. I would gladly donate $$$ to send MAGAt trash to Russia so the rest of us could live in a civilized society.

[quote]It was the Dutch who gave us THIS filth and debauchery

Director Lars von Trier is Danish though

I don’t get why they chose the dystopian hell hole that is Russia. Russia?! Why not some remote tropical island? Somewhere in south America or Europe? They’re just so incredibly stupid and deserve everything they get.

^ Oh, sure, because Gay people never flock to remote tropical islands 🙄

We are not alone in suspecting he's closeted gay or bi. lt's amusing that quite a few heavily uparrowed comments make the same observation.

Looks like they've settled into their rolls as propagandists for mother Russia. I live their tour of the mall where fully stocked stores price sanctions aren't working even though the mall is near devoid if shoppers. Also included is a weird ass musical montage showing his frumpy damn wife picking stuff up and making stupid comments and him extoli the virtues of flip phones of which there is a wide variety and availability and how great it is that you can only get flip phones are so called dumb phones as he calls them.

Any updates?

Conscripted and sent to the front lines, most likely.

Do they now think Siberia is the new Toronto?

Would they draft/conscript the kids of this family? Or any American expat person in Russia? Wouldn't it be funny if they conscripted Edward Snowden?

My guess is they wouldn't because... bad publicity? Not sure, but I'd be surprised.

Do you really think Russia is deterred in any way by bad publicity?

I think Putin is sort of crazy, but not stupid.

Sending sweet Russophile expat-American Fundies into battle might be seen as fucking over the USA - just when Trump may be about to take the reins and do everything Putin wants.

I don't think Putin would want to put his old bestie/useful fool Donald in a bind. Trump doesn't really have principles - he has dispositional states, and his rightwing Fundie supporters seeing American Christians being sent into battle might cause Trump to flip his position on Russia.

R221 They're Canadian, not American.

And the Russians have already been drafting convicts, teenagers, and foreign nationals. They won't blink at sending these idiots to get chewed up on the march to Odessa.

“ Family of 10”…….that says it all, to me anyway

The American Fundies would be just about as upset about Canadian Fundies being fucked over as they would native boys. Canada's our little brother, anyway. Now if it was Mexicans...

You can never escape us.

Especially if you ARE a homo, r225

Fundies of Dutch heritage can be aggressive and oversensitive as someone mentioned upthread. Here is my experience with them. I went to a school that was run by Christian Reformed people and they are different from the evangelicals. A lot of them live in rural Michigan. They moved south and started a private school. They are fair minded and actually sometimes treat kids with respect. They have extremely strict rules for the Sabbath at the level of things like not listening to the radio, not riding bikes. School dances were banned. They would accuse kids of using drugs if they joked about them. Yet they would be very conversational with both the parents and kids to find a solution. They also taught us about other religions but said that they were going to hell. They also believe in predestined heaven, meaning that there’s nothing you can do and won’t go to heaven because the people that choose wrong things are predestined for hell, and they should be avoided.

It sounds very similar to Hasidic Jews.

They're leaving apparently, at least temporarily.

They love our money, not our values.

I watched some of that video at R229. The family sound like absolute Darwin award level fucking braindead morons who are utterly clueless.

After badmouthing Russia on YouTube they're lucky the Russians didn't scoop them all up and send them to detention Siberia. That would have been very fitting but there's still time.

Both parents need to pass the Russian language test to get residency. How hard is Russian to learn for English speakers?

[quote] Ranking fourth on our list of hardest languages to learn (for English speakers), Russian uses a Cyrillic alphabet — made up of letters both familiar and unfamiliar to us. But speaker beware: some of the Cyrillic letters may look familiar but make a different sound than the Latin letter they resemble. For instance, “B” in the Cyrillic alphabet makes a “V” sound.

[quote] Grammatically, Russian is not as difficult as Polish but pretty darn close. Polish has seven cases, while Russian has six. Also, Russians omit the verb “to be” in the present tense, which can throw beginners for a loop when they try to form basic sentences. In Russian, “I am a student” would simply translate to “I student.” Like Polish, Russian uses a lot of consonants clustered together, which makes spelling and pronunciation a challenge.

Another site indicated that it takes about 1,100 hours to learn Russian, but I don't what level of proficiency the Russian government tests for.

R232 I took four semesters of Russian in college, and still barely speak it. Reading it is okay, but translating all that into English is ponderous.

But they’re immersed in it 24/7, so maybe they’ll do better. Assuming their dead asses even try.

[quote]How hard is Russian to learn for English speakers?

Very R232. Slavic languages bear no resemblance to English whatsoever. This family is also colossally stupid which won't help. I doubt they would be able to pass a test even after years.

Are any of the children attractive? I heard Steven Seagal rents out rooms in exchange for light housekeeping and heavy sex.

The dad is super-excited about learning the language and assimilating to Russian culture, but the wife seems resentful. She’ll probably snap one day and murder him in his sleep.

Svetlana! Bring me the axe.

He won’t be able to learn a second language.

He’ll learn to say “me love you long time” in Russian.

Or swear words and random phrases. He won’t understand the language.

He doesn’t have the capacity.

I traveled through Russia 10 years ago. Outside of Moscow most areas are poor, most of the houses reminded me of where my grandparents lived in the 40's.

Can't they go to someplace like Idaho? All those nice, wholesome xtian militant rightwingers should welcome them.

Will they give him his money back though?

How hard is it to learn the 5 essential Russian words?

"'celovek, zhenshchina, muzhchina, camera, television"

Any updates on these crazy kids? Was daddy drafted? Are they spouting Russian propaganda for their lives?

I'm very curious what's up with them. Install cameras, mic up the house, and have a camera crew following them. This is the only reality show I'd consider watching.

When they left, they probably thought they could start a blog about their glorious new freedoms for true believers stuck in North America. Heh.

Has Steven Seagal dropped by with a Welcome basket yet?

How about Ed Snowden inviting them for a Welcome dinner?

Gerard Depardieu stopping by to check out the women?

Nothing? Wow. These Canadian fundies are real social failures in Russia. Maybe gays in Canada wasn't so bad.

An article I found said that Depardieu is not living in Russia anymore. Looking around further: "The Russian people are not responsible for the crazy, unacceptable excesses of their leaders like Vladimir Putin," Depardieu told AFP on March 31. Members of the State Duma, one of the chambers of the Russian parliament, have spoken out against Depardieu's condemnation of Putin and called for his passport to be confiscated. "I consider it important and necessary to talk about the need to cancel Gérard Depardieu's passport for his swaggering attacks and attempts to speak on behalf of the Russian people, who did not delegate him to make these statements," Russian MP Sultan Khamzaev said, per Russian outlet MK RU.

He added that the actor's real estate in Russia "must be expropriated and given to orphans."

Newsweek link:

That article was from April 2022.

A newer one (February 2023) said Depardieu has returned to France and asked for refugee status!

* "I am ashamed to be Russian. It is very painful for me that we are associated with orcs and bandits, fascists and criminals... I transferred the money I made from the sale of my Mordovian flat to help the army. I appeal to the French authorities for support and ask to grant me refugee status," now says Depardieu.

sorry for hijacking the thread.

One also thinks of Tara Reade, that human Curves classroom who once non-credibly accused Ja’Biden of raping her in a hallway that doesn’t exist. She defected to Russia after the accusation fell apart, and now takes payola from Kremlin media outlets.

When time gets the tough, you go RA-SHA! They take good care!

In a recent Youtube video, the father indicates that Russia has given them temporary asylum after their tourist visa runs out. So they will have extra time to pass the language test and won't have to immediately leave the country.

That video is not posted here because "No Clicks for You" Canadian-Russian family!

Wow. Can those morons learn Russian well enough to ever pass a serious test of the Russian language? My guess is they'll pass them regardless - especially since they've granted asylum. This could be a new version of the Beverly Hillbillies - if Depardieu's PTS ZhD film company was still active in Russia. Maybe this could give Snowdon something to do? And Tara Reid could star as Miss Jane or something - and Steven Seagal could be in it too.

[quote] My guess is they'll pass them regardless

You may be right. The same person who counted votes and gave me 87% of the vote will be grading the husband and wife's Russian language test.

Have their kids started hating them yet?

Tara Reade the cuckoo for cocoa puffs MAGA-trollop and Biden's false accuser? She defected to Russia? And they took her?

I question Mr. Pootie's taste level.

Update!!

Things are going...as predicted.

There was something on TikTok about a conservative Mexican family who fled California for Idaho. You can imagine what happened.

As bad as Idaho must be, I'd take it iberostar Russia, R258. This idiot is about to be conscripted and the odds are good that he'll end up dying in Putin's war.

Fucking yikes.

Well, I guess there’s a price to pay for any country you live in, and they chose to be cannon fodder for an authoritarian dictator over tolerating the existence of gay people. Have fun, guys!

I still want to know more about the kid that didn't go with them.

[quote]Can't they go to someplace like Idaho?

They should just adopt a puppy, name it Cricket and shoot it in the head for no other reason at all than being a "picture of pure joy" and Kristi Noem will welcome them in SD as heroes.

I’m glad I learned the word iberostar today.

R262 I can't remember where I read it, but the kid that remained behind thought his parents were bonkers and he said their extended family felt the same.

He would have been prime draft age - 22 I think. I wonder if Russia would have drafted him to go to Ukraine?

I don't know how the fuck my phone auto-filled "iberostar" when I meant to type "over."

That Tromp family drama is fascinating. Can't believe no one has ever come forward with an explanation of WTF happened to the parents. Too much isolation like the crazy couple in Bug?

From the 90's to the aughts, I went to Russia five times for work.

I knew what to expect, having spent weeks reading up on a country then emerging from Communism before the first time I went for a week. There wasn't much internet to look at in 1991: Google was founded in 1998 so you had to read books. And these people up and left Canada to live in a shithole without checking it out first?

How fucking stupid can these people be?

Any deaths yet?

Homeschool stupid, r268. Just how talibangelical kkkunts like ‘em!

I HOPE that when things take an even worse turn that the Canadian government ignores the pleas from these losers to bring them home to Canada.

[quote] There was something on TikTok about a conservative Mexican family who fled California for Idaho. You can imagine what happened.

I wonder why they didn’t go to Texas. There are Conservative Latinos everywhere.

Unless the subtext is that they wanted to live some place 90% white.

The thing about assholes is that they gravitate towards other assholes and then whine about how there are always assholes wherever they go.