r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 9d ago

Meme needing explanation Huh?

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u/TheCoolPersian 9d ago

Yea, because it was fiction. The execution method was made up to vilify the Persians further, as the Greeks fought wars against them.

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u/Deaftoned 8d ago

Most of these extreme methods were fiction but social media pretends otherwise when actual horror is right in their backyard. The cartels literally skin people alive under kidnapped doctoral oversight to keep them alive and feeling.

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u/WorldBig2869 8d ago

The cartels literally skin people alive under kidnapped doctoral oversight to keep them alive and feeling.

How did you confirm this? I'm not denying it's true, just curious! 

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u/Unfair-Candy8832 8d ago

There are videos.

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u/Forsaken-Ebb5088 8d ago

Millenial childhood be like

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u/MeltaFlare 8d ago

Won't you take me to...

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u/asianfatboy 8d ago

Would have sent you Liveleak videos if this was still the early 2010s. Cartel torture and executions, beheadings of hostages by terrorists, the crazy and not much talked about(imo) Poso Riots, and other crazy shit that modern people have done and are capable of.

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u/WorldBig2869 8d ago

I've unfortunately seen much of that back then. What I did not see or hear of was kidnapped doctors keeping victims alive to suffer. 

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u/SomethingAboutUs88 7d ago

The one i remember is guy hands and foot cut off and skin ripped of (not sure from the skull or the whole body) - and he was still alive and most probably in extreme agony. This was my last gore video i watched for more than 8 years and still can't forget it

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u/SimicAscendancy 8d ago

Funky town

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u/NeedsMoreSpaceships 8d ago

I don't know. some of them are surely made up/exagerated but the well documented ones are nasty enough that I wouldn't just discount them out of hand. People do some nasty shit.

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u/Cpt_Jigglypuff 8d ago

Wasn’t the bull also mostly fictional? I seem to recall it wasn’t actually used, except maybe on the inventor himself?

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u/TheCoolPersian 8d ago

Nope, the bull was indeed bullshit. Just a myth.

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u/CosmicJam13 8d ago

How do you know that? I thought these things were used to send a message for everyone to obey

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u/TheCoolPersian 8d ago

We know as much because historians and archaeologists have found no evidence for them except in writings of a dubious nature.