What we’ve got now is a bootleg Andropov era - cartoonish and feeble, ’cause the internet exists. After this comes a bootleg Gorbachev arc and the inevitable perestroika, anon. The “heroes” will come back from the goida (SMO front) and start carving up the ill-got loot. They don’t care about prison or whatever the Putinists try to spook them with.

The vast majority of “stability enjoyers,” the strong-hand-in-their-ass crowd, will be sucking the comfy cocks of poverty and dysfunction. Their master won’t be able—or willing—to feed them. Meanwhile, the quick, slippery, self-reliant types are going to level-up hard.

I want to live through the new perestroika and not miss a thing. Last time, I was too young to take part. That’s about it.