• Cruel@programming.dev
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    6 hours ago

    Using what definition of irony?

    A situation is ironic if it defies expectation. Like how Steve Irwin, the Crocodile Hunter, was killed by a stingray.

    Kirk being killed by a leftist extremist, who thought he was a fascist, using a gun, is pretty much in line with how you’d expect him to die.

    • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca
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      3 hours ago

      if that is actually the most likely way for him to have died, then I retract my statement, and add the comment that the US is an even more dangerous place than I thought