Comment on DEI, more like DIED

• Cruel@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It only qualifies as ironic if Kirk would not support being a part of the “price worth paying” for gun rights. Do you actually believe he would’ve only accepted the deaths of others and not of himself?

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  • NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Absolutely. Yes.

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    • Cruel@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Nothing I’ve seen would suggest that he was not willing to die for gun rights. Seems more like you cannot even comprehend someone being principled and politically consistent. Seems like projection to me.

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      • NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yeah, that’s why he traveled around with all of those armed guards and security, right? Seems like sycophancy to me.

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  • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s ironic whether or not he actually stands behind the words that he said

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    • Cruel@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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      • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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

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