Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich Romanov
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This week, Comrade Mayor Nova takes us through a Romanov failbrother's journey from Twink Commander to First Cosmonaut. Get in your super-elaborate stagecoach, let's go!
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Insane how much of modern geopolitics was precipitated by two specific mayors. Marx was a hack, Great Mayor Theory is real.
Look the left SRs were pretty hard-core, they broke with the Bolsheviks largely because they wouldn't war to the death with Germany, and the Left-SR penchant for blowing up officials practically regardless of party near the end was well known. Whether Fanny Kaplan's (pretty like heavily coerced) testimony is to be believed, an SR almost got Lenin too.
"I hereby resign as your uncle" - a fun new way to come out as trans to your niblings dropped, just in case any co-mayors of the pod have any nieces and nephews.
The Russian Revolution was not homophobic. Full stop. Amongst the numerous reforms passed by the Soviet Union in 1917 was an act decriminalizing homosexuality. This would later be reversed by Stalin as a sop to the bourgeois remnants with whom he sought to collaborate as he was consolidating power.
I'm intersted in November saying she's a Marxist given that this podcast functions as effectively an antidote to Marxist history. The historical episodes in particular serve as really excellent micro-histories about the ripple effects of individuals and their idiosyncrasies, and how history can be shaped by the most innocuous of things. Honestly, if I were trying to dissuade someone from a belief in historical materialism, I'd probably point them to this podcast.
I'm not a Marxist in the sense that I'm too stupid to read but I would say that the peculiarities of individuals in power having an outsized, usually profoundly negative, effect on others, especially the "lower" classes, is absolutely in tune with historical materialism. Whether mayor shithead doesn't believe in clean water so now you have every disease, or he believes only he can create clean water and fucks up the infrastructure that way, it's still the upper class abusing everyone around them due to the outsized power they have, strengthening only themselves.
30:35 Save a horse, ride a infantryman
Not Sergei related but this is the newest post on this feed and I thought you'd all appreciate this recent mayoral video by Zohran. Genuinely hilarious. https://youtu.be/T6s4N2h6Eec
1:08:40 Appreciate Riley utilising cross-pod experience to give us accurate Bone information
“Think fast fuckass! Chemistry has been invented!” 1:23:10
1:10:40 Diva Down 😭🙏😔
See, this is why I side with the werewolves. Better class characteristics.
Lippy Lick-Shot getting referenced lmao
The revolutionary scene in Russia from 1860-1917 is so fucking messy lol I think the left-SR's are done a bit dirty in this episode, but I'm not exactly a Bolshevik
This episode, in Spotify, was transcribed as "No Gods, No Mares". I just can't stop laughing about it. I even screenshotted it for some future re-use.
The KJB MLP episode is leaking.
What's the annoying joke Mattie mentioned about trans women laughing hard? I don't think I've ever heard it.
Its about trans people's voice training failing when they big belly laugh
I have to tell everyone that every time I hear the name "Curtis Sliwa" my brain interprets it as "Jojo Siwa." Every dang time! It makes this podcast very confusing whenever he comes up
Ditto!
Turns out the Gay '90s was mostly just this guy
Yeah this is who kicked some of my ancestors out of there also! Son of a!!!
same… 😔
yeah his description is just Evil Gay. we’ve all met one
Genuinely started yelling when I heard the name Yevno Azef drop. Far and away the funniest shit in the whole arc of pre-1917 Russian revolutionaries
Extremely funny to me that if the Left-SRs were all as much like optics bleeding hearts as this assassin, Azef not being there might have saved the lives of some of the Romanovs. Not that Nicholas gave a shit about any of his kids.
can't believe it took until the far end of the episode for "they called this mf Sir Gay lmoa" to surface; as a joke
I'm not going to Google it, I assume a nitroglycerin bomb of this time period is one of those black circles with a hissing fuse?
Third mayor with a boy team; rob ford had his high school Canadian football team ☝️🤓
FUNGUS VEERSUS VAMPIRE!!!!
Perked up when they said he spent a lot of time in Italy - Capri was basically Aristo Fire island At the time like John Singer Sargent has tons of paintings of twinks and nude Mustache men from the time
They did the Mayor Mash It was a town hall smash
Riley, I went to a Portuguese cafe near me and heard people talking. I forgot it wasn't a bit, momentarily.
boy team six 🤣
Huh h I'm y oh h the I
Calling either the left Or right SRs social democrats is inaccurate they were narodniks who were kinda like a halfway point between the William Jennings Bryan and Pol Pot. It's a are peasants or workers the revolutionary class debate everyone who says peasants is a SR everyone who says workers including the Bolsheviks are social democrats and after 1905 those groups are split on the question of standing in elections
Like the average left SR was what would happen if Luigi Mangione was a homesteading guy
Just worked out that the latin motto is meant to be a riff on "Can't fight city hall" lol
The Third Regiment of the US Army "Old Guard" has entered the chat as the American equivalent of Grenadier Guards or the House Guards. Nova has lost some military nerd cred. She will lose on of her many military hats in a somber ceremony with muffled drums, a display precision slow march, a buglerer playing taps as the hat is removed and placed in a locked storage container looks strangely like something one would see in a well equipped dungeon. Then retreat will be called and there Nova, will stand, contemplating her error as the sun sets over the regimental parade ground. A single tear of shame running down her cheek.
surprisingly less faberge egg jokes here than expected. insert november's "the Egg" drop from Octopussy here
"Unexpected Item in electoral area"
Would you believe that this is not the only Romanov mayor? There is also Paul Dmitrievich Romanovsky-Ilyinsky, AKA Paul Ilyinsky. Great-grandson of Alexander II, graduate of Sandhurst...and three-time Republican mayor of Palm Beach, Florida. Honestly, would love to hear an episode on him, just to figure out how you get from Sandhurst to Palm Beach.
Someone with doodle talent please draw a single frame comic of the bomb assassination with the caption, "Think fast, fuckass! Chemistry's been invented!"
"He was Russian Ed Davey" fucking slew me, much like Russian Ed Davey slew this asshole.
If only there was a water slide close by. Kalyayev could’ve got away
54:00 to be fair, a russian student being sent to siberia for his crimes and coming back having learned his lesson and not being mad at anybody is kinda the exact plot of Crime And Punishment
Left SR, the true standard bearers of socialism. Death to the Bolsheviks.
As much as I've come around on the USSR in terms of like, being an occasional force for good on purpose for Communism, rather than basically by accident like the US sometimes is, it is remarkable how much bolshevism fucking sucked. Trick to want to kill yourself instantly: read Trotsky's opinions on labor unions.
Candidacy of a Vampire.
I am really happy about having discovered blindsight through Riley’s comments on podcasts, incredible book
i think the lib assassin might have been a character in Golden Kamuy lmao
It's crazy how you can't walk up to the tsar and kill him with a big round bomb anymore. The physics just don't work like that in the 21st century.
"think fast, fuckass, chemistry has been invented!" is going to live in my head forever
T-shirts when!?
Weird fact about the Preobrezhansky Regiment: since 1964, their marching tune has served as the traditional slow march for the UK's Royal Marines. Edit: the guy who did that was everyone's favorite British astronaut, Lord Mountbatten.
Things I learned I didn't know I didn't want to learn.
Was Gilgamesh a tyrannical gay mayor? An ancient archetype from the municipal primordia?
Throwing up in a woman's lap on purpose because you don't like her is extremely mayor behavior.
The vampires been to Turkey to get hair loss treatment - you know Istanbuls always the first stop.
Imagine being such an evil catty arisocratic homosexual you turn an entire nation's socialist movement way more homophobic almost single-handedly
When I learned about Stalin making homosexuality illegal again I wondered what his problem was. Turns out it was this guy
the monster sash
34:00 minutes in, so he's gay, disabled, and ducking autistictic? Got damn!
First mayor to most accurately reflect the demographics of the podcast until they do a trans autistic mayor
Riley I heard your Lennon Lenin joke. It was good and I laughed. Keep it up sister
riley needs to transition to make his gay jokes retroactively okay before the Woke Stasi disappears him
I Love Russian Aristocracy!!!!!!
Vampire landlord refusing to deal with a gas leak is literally a Aqua Teen Hunger Force bit.
more like sir gay lol
It's funny, just yesterday I said to myself, "I'm all caught up on the patreon, better unsub soon to save money on my extremely limited income" and then the Mayortaculus taps me on the shoulder after I wake up this morning and says "hey man check this out" and it's a Romanov failson mayor. It's like it heard me.
The Vampire Landlord? You mean Markula?
Спасибо, товарищ Kelly. EDIT - Yeah, Mattie's reaction to Alexander III's party trick is why I feel awkward about how much of a POS he was. He ain't Trump, Trump might be funny but Alexander III rules unironically. He just used his immense power and stupid chud brain for evil. EDIT EDIT - "His name was Ulyanov." Why do I hear boss music? Why is the boss music very familiar and bombastic? Why am I singing along to it?
[one thousand trumpet hitting at once] SOIUZ NERUSHIII