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Dmitry Grozoubinski

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Author of Why Politicians Lie About Trade | Trade and Negotiations Explainer. Forever D&D DM. 🇺🇦 Born. 🇦🇺 Raised. 🇨🇭 Based. Media and training: explaintrade.com Consultancy network: auroramacro.com Speaking representation: cwgspeakers.com

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · Apr 28

The audiobook version of Why Politicians Lie About Trade seems to be out in the wild!

Read by the excellent Christopher Tester (www.christophertester.co.uk), it is delivered with more gravitas than I could have ever managed.

www.amazon.com/Why-Politici...

Why Politicians Lie About Trade: ...and What You Need to Know About It

Amazon.com: Why Politicians Lie About Trade: ...and What You Need to Know About It (Audible Audio Edition): Dmitry Grozoubinski, Christopher Tester, Canbury Press Ltd: Books

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 2h

Yeah, but you still read it don't you?

DON'T YOU?!?

a woman is standing in front of a door and laughing while crying .

Alt: a woman crying and running away.

media.tenor.com

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 3h

I'm not a grand strategist but perhaps the US may regret putting all its economic eggs into a single AI basket it needs Chinese cooperation to weave.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 22h

Seeing the DM requests of my female colleagues over there is like glimpsing Cthulu if pure madness had terrible spelling and child support payments debts.

Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 1d

Leaving the pornbots even more bemused!

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 2d

This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.

No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.

Well – no. Bluesky may or may not be, as one centre-right friend who felt unwelcome put it, “self-righteous island”. But the idea that’s why we went is nonsense. That I’ve largely stopped posting on a site that’s done more to shape my career and social circle than the rest of the internet combined is less about avoiding rival opinions (I love arguing with people who are wrong!) than with the fact the site simply became unusable. It stopped generating the things (good jokes, interesting debate, clicks) I wanted; it became extremely good at generating the things (racists, pornbots, racist pornbots) I did not.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 2d

There was a period in history during which full-plate armour was so impregnable, and ransoming back captured nobles so lucrative, that the knights could treat warfare as a game while their men-at-arms got slaughtered in the mud.

I think about that a lot when I look at modern politics.

Jason Karsh @jkarsh.bsky.social · 2d

If we survive this, and Democrats are able to take back power, I guarantee you we will have to endure think-piece after think-piece that demand the rest of us reach out, stop shaming, and forgive fascists and the crimes they’ve committed. I absolutely guarantee it.

Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 2d

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 3d

Me, a trade guy: "You see, the US President is mad the Chinese just made it harder for Americans to buy Chinese products... so he's about to retaliate by making it harder for Americans to buy Chinese products."

My terrified listener: "Please sir, I have a family... and this is a Starbucks."

Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 3d

Here's the reality: On any given day the President might impose an effective embargo on trade with China. This is the second time he's done it *this year*. They may patch it up again, but the pattern has been set, and it will shape expectations for the rest of his term.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 4d

Dishonoured makes a strong case for it being cool as shit.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 4d

As I once explained to Ian, the only para you need worry about are the Parademons of Thanos.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 4d

I'm thrilled you appreciate the invaluable education on comic books I've provided you via social media.

I had been beginning to think you might not be as keen on it as I assumed, but now like Phoenix Force Jean, I've returned from the Lazarus Pit more committed to my mission than ever.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 5d

The thing about crashing a tank through a museum of antiquities is that you don't have to be a particularly skilled driver to do a lot of damage.

James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 5d

It's difficult at times to hold both "this admin is doing lasting and serious damage to our institutions and the globe" and "this admin is full of the most bafflingly incompetent idiots you've ever seen who fall over themselves like a Vaudeville act constantly."

The duality of man is incredible.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 5d

We've all bin there, Pasi.

Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 5d

Sartorial cakeism rears its ugly head. Barnier is inbound with a stairs slide and a colour wheel.

Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 5d

No idea why you think this BLUE DRESS would be controversial.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 5d

There was certainly something recently which monopolised all public debate and paralysed all policy initiative in the UK for the better part of a decade, and I dont think it was trans rights.

Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 6d

"While Britain was redefining what a woman is, China was building five nuclear reactors," says Kemi Badenoch.

I cannot be the only person curious about how these two things are related

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 7d

The petition to take away my Canva subscription, or at least make me take a course on how to use it properly, now has more signatures than the 2nd Brexit Referendum one.

Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 7d

How does he keep getting these exclusives?!?

A fake image of Jesse Waters interviewing the same person as in all the videos in the quoted tweet, except this time with Darth Vader's helmet on and the caption "Former Jedi Speaks Out".

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 7d

Communism with American characteristics.

Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 7d

Start-up that quickly reaches a very high valuation.

Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 7d

"Why does the US have so many unicorns?"

I don't know, but being a place where Bari Weiss can sell her long-form Libs of TikTok blog to Paramount for $150 million and a job offer might have something to do with it.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 8d

In desperate bid for a Prime Ministerial candidate with proven staying power, Macron to nominate Anthony Scaramucci.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 8d

Not just a force of nature but a capricious primordial deity which must be appeased with deference and sacrifice to diminish, but of course never fully eliminate, the likelihood that it lashes out and burns the village.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 8d

Greta atop a burning Russian tank haranguing the crew for not having switched to an electric T-72 variant as a Taylor Swift song blares and Hillary Clinton's email server slowly melts to unrecoverable slag.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 8d

I follow you to make sure my bad faith replies arrive ahead of the also-rans.

🫡🫡🫡

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 8d

Really fun how we get to watch every conservative government in every country go on this journey after every election.

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