Damn, I should've waited a couple minutes to make my post so I could have included these as examples of how many eggs Bob wants to break. Hell, given how bloodthirsty he is in these tweets and elsewhere, I think the omelet is the last thing he's thinking about. Bob just wants vengeance, and he wants it yesterday.
The unspoken truth about bullying is this: odds are, you were not a completely innocent victim. Bullies tend to pick on those that stand out of the crowd for whatever reason. Sometimes it's through no fault of the victim's own, sure, like if one is bullied for a disfigurement that they had no control over. But often, it's due to behavioral reasons, like, oh, I dunno, the sperg that won't shut up about their favorite video game, for instance.
A smarter person will come to terms with their bullying, understand why it's happening, and change their behavior to act more appropriately. In the example above, it doesn't mean you have to give up what you like, it just means learning that not everyone is going to care as much about it as you do. In another case, it might mean learning not to act in a disruptive, obnoxious manner, or to stop behaving like a know-it-all. I know there are a lot of people out there who preach about non-conformity (albeit frequently in a Life of Brian-esque "we are all individuals!" way), but conformity is a good life skill to learn. Unless you have fuck-you money, you're going to have to learn how to get along with others, and conforming behavior to fit better with your peers will help dramatically.
If you're someone like Bob, however, you take the wrong lesson to heart. They're not bullying you because you're acting like an asshole, no, they're just jealous of your superior intellect! Those knuckle-dragging Neanderthals want to drag you down to their level because they fear your mighty brainpower! Why should you change your ways when you're clearly in the right? Over time, these people become increasingly ostracized from the group as more people view them as not worth being a member, going from active bullying to passive shunning. I saw that happen to more than one person in my class growing up, with at least one of them getting in trouble for making an enemy list (which I can't remember if I was on or not, though I rarely interacted with them in the first place so I couldn't say for sure). And if you never learn why people became increasingly cold to you and carry that into adulthood, you become a bitter, violent misanthrope like good ol' Blobbo: still seething with anger and hatred at everyone around him, still blaming others for his problems, still refusing to learn.
The old adage holds true: "If you run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day, you're the asshole."
could sure as shit ask Bob WHAT FUCKING PROOF does he have that the people that did these things to him PERSONALLY (not abstractly or as collateral damage via Government) voted Red Not Blue?
