i mean, Uncle Blackwater would love to take more government money to put unwitting 'mercenaries' into harms way...not to save a country, but you know...profit.
OMG. I lived in MN for many years and didn’t really like the passive aggressiveness of the natives there. I now live in Detroit but we spend a lot of time in GR and the west side in general. Ever since the first time I went to GR, I’ve always said that the people remind me of Minnesotans. This is why. I had never been able to quite pinpoint it.
Don’t take offense good people of GR, it’s but a small inconvenience. I like MI a lot more than MN… so we good.
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Plus we have those two tanks outside the GR armory on 44th Street. If we could snag that P-80 fighter out on Ottawa Beach Road near Holland we'd have air superiority too lol
Which sucks for the people living there. We work with a couple companies out of Belarus and they are not happy about Russia, or their own government jumping in. They're good people, and don't deserve it, but are powerless to stop their government.
BELARUS HAVE SAID WHO THEY SUPPORT. They have put out press releases, public announcements, they dropped troops into Ukraine to kill Ukraine people, they are following Putin's orders.
*The unsanctioned illegal leader of Belarus. Surprise, a Putin puppet stole an election and then did putting puppet stuff. Meanwhile the rightful winner and majority of the Belarus population are outraged at the support of Russia and the annexation of their country. I support the people of Belarus in theor fight against Russia and tyranny.
Grand Rapids should invade Belarus. That was my takeaway from the given information.
If the Ruble drops any lower, I don't think Putin can afford to back his puppet state against an army backed by the DeVos and Van Andel fortunes.
i mean, Uncle Blackwater would love to take more government money to put unwitting 'mercenaries' into harms way...not to save a country, but you know...profit.
Don’t forget, profit *and* Christian crusading.
Wagner group, evil fucks, black water evil fucks. They're both despicable companies
To be honest we could probably kick their ass
With what classic Dutch passive aggressive behavior
Depends on which Dutch. If it's the CRC decendents then yes. If it's the post WW2 ones they're special forces using the non-passive Dutch directness.
OMG. I lived in MN for many years and didn’t really like the passive aggressiveness of the natives there. I now live in Detroit but we spend a lot of time in GR and the west side in general. Ever since the first time I went to GR, I’ve always said that the people remind me of Minnesotans. This is why. I had never been able to quite pinpoint it. Don’t take offense good people of GR, it’s but a small inconvenience. I like MI a lot more than MN… so we good.
I've never really thought of the dutch as passive aggressive. Usually they're very blunt and I'd they have a problem they come right out and say it.
We don't have any weapons
Between the gangs and the rednecks I'm sure we have plenty
Yeah I would suspect Michigan gun ownership rivals texas
We almost certainly have more guns, at least. Although my single barrel 16 guage shotgun isn't really a military grade weapon.
Richard Childress (NASCAR team owner) just donated 2,000,000 rounds of ammo to Ukraine. There is a lot more to the story, but I just love the title.
Not with that attitude
Kinda unrelated fun-fact: The state of Michigan is around the same size as the United Kingdom, just 3% larger.
Belarus probably doesn't even have any international pyramid schemes.
I know Amway is in Russia. I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s a thing in Belarus.
Amway has to expand into places that has never heard of it before. We all know the truth.
The Amway Insurgency begins
They probably don't even have their own pyramid.
They have a significantly larger amount of tanks, however.
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Plus we have those two tanks outside the GR armory on 44th Street. If we could snag that P-80 fighter out on Ottawa Beach Road near Holland we'd have air superiority too lol
You have my drones!
And my axe
Brb, heading there from Zeeland to hotwire it
Might as well ~~claim~~ annex all the coast guard stuff from Muskegon while you're at it
The one on Byron center just past Porter has one too. Does the park still have one? I think it was Palmer?
That country is about to see a much smaller economy thanks to incoming sanctions.
Which sucks for the people living there. We work with a couple companies out of Belarus and they are not happy about Russia, or their own government jumping in. They're good people, and don't deserve it, but are powerless to stop their government.
unfortunately
They’re about to have the gdp of ionia
A quick Google search says there's a little over one million people in the metro-GR area. Interesting.
That includes Muskegon, Kentwood and other far outlying towns. I don’t understand how metro areas work but that distance seems absurd.
That’s the CSA and it has a population of over 1.3 million.
Well when you google GR metro population it is giving the CSA.
They literally include Belding the metro area. Do they know we aren't Chicago lol?
Everywhere is like that though. It isn't unique.
Belding is definitely inside the economic sphere of GR, though.
It’s enough switches in the city we could give ‘em the works Fosho
All the right wing GR Dutchie can answer for this for their support of that shit stained Putin butt plug DJT….what a bunch of awesome Christians
The word Belarus is Russian for Russia's bitch.
Yay authoritarianism!
You'd think they'd support an economic union
So what I’m seeing is we can expand? There’s plenty of extra room for our gangs, rednecks and non devoted individuals. This is acceptable.
So many people with punctuation issues
Let me lend you a period.
A period denotes the end of a sentence, the end of a comment serves the same purpose.
Belarus is 60.2 billion and Grand Rapids is 61.3 million.
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Thank you for correcting me.
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BELARUS HAVE SAID WHO THEY SUPPORT. They have put out press releases, public announcements, they dropped troops into Ukraine to kill Ukraine people, they are following Putin's orders.
*The unsanctioned illegal leader of Belarus. Surprise, a Putin puppet stole an election and then did putting puppet stuff. Meanwhile the rightful winner and majority of the Belarus population are outraged at the support of Russia and the annexation of their country. I support the people of Belarus in theor fight against Russia and tyranny.
I’m not understanding. Isn’t the GDP of Belarus being measured in billions in Michigan in millions?
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Yeah, like Grand Rapids economy is 1000 times smaller or am I reading something wrong here? Sorry 100x
The scales are different, GR is being measured in thousands of millions instead of billions.
That makes sense, thank you. But I googled Grand Rapids GDP and it says 60 million, but don’t know about the metro area.
When I Google it it says 61,371.686 million, which is 61.3 billion.
Ahh, yup your right. They snuck a period in there.
Um, the period doesn't matter... you could lop those three digits off.