It truly baffles leftists that ANYONE would dare think they should resist illegitimate authority.
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Not just leftists. All statists. For them, authority IS legitimacy.
The funny/ironic party about “authority IS legitimacy” is that it relies on FORCE to make it true.
Well, that “legitimizing” force just got met with stronger force. So, is the stronger force therefore more legitimate?
If “might makes right”, then those who opposed them are “right”.
If not, then there is an objective source of “right”, and they’ll have to abide by it as well if they expect those that resist them to do so.