Theodore Roosevelt called the White House the "Bully pulpit", but the "bully" wasn't literally taken. By it he meant "a terrific platform from which to advocate an agenda. Roosevelt used the word bully as an adjective meaning "superb" or "wonderful", a more common usage at that time."
Source: wikipedia.com
Today, the miracle of social media has afforded us all a similar if not an even more conspicuous platform; only that the "bully" is now taken literally, and so we are no longer using the platform like adults with sound judgment, for the most part that is.
It saddens me that some of us are so dead to intelligent civilisation that we would stoop so low, be so profane, so insecure, so devoid of sense of tomorrow as to take pride in assaulting good people's dignity. It saddens me even more that some of us would do such acts for hire, and the hirer for some malicious enjoyment derived from observing respected people getting disrespected.
Well, for those at it and don't want to stop for a change, knock yourselves out. As for y'all victims of cyber bully, especially ladies, take this from Chris Colfer. He said: "when people hurt you over and over, think of them like sand paper; they may scratch and hurt you a bit, but in the end, you end up polished and they end up useless" - and man, he's right. In my entire existence and I'm a very observant man, I have never seen anyone ascend to greatness by pushing others down.
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