ShalmaneserIII t1_ivmmvi8 wrote
Reply to comment by semiomni in TIL that the Persian King Xerxes was so enraged after a storm destroyed his bridges that he ordered the sea be given 300 whiplashes, and branded it with red-hot irons as the soldiers shouted at the water by LethalPoopstain
Symbolic actions. Kind of like when women would burn their bras for feminism.
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