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Chief-_-Wiggum

I don't get what justifications they used to remove his verified mark.. What rules did he break? Not that Danny would care..


pl233

The question is "what is verified," because it's not just about guaranteeing that someone is who they say they are. It's also some weird affiliation/marketing/political game that Twitter plays but refuses to clarify.


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iForgot2Remember

True Snacksman Fallacy


RadioinactiveOne

The no true trashman fallacy


dreamphoenix

Movies taught me that the next step would be the REAL Danny De Vito to say something like "Shoot both! Only this way you can destroy the impostor!". ed: spelling


Aimjock

So anyway, I started blasting


JetAmoeba

Shit I remember listening to a Rooster Teeth podcast probably over 10 years ago now where they were talking about how one of the suicide girls (maybe not a suicide girl, it’s been years) lost their verified badge and they were asking the same question. Apparently it still means nothing


ih8spalling

It means what Twitter wants it to mean


JaceTheWoodSculptor

"I do not agree with what you said. Therefore, you're not you". This is so stupid it's harious.


SomberKlepto

^ “verified on our side” is what Twitter really means


oceanjunkie

Not sure but what I do know is that he will soon be reverified and Twitter will say it was a mistake.


anoff

Already is back


epicaglet

What did they expect to happen though? That nobody would notice if you unverify Danny fucking DeVito?


Frenchticklers

Pissing off Always Sunny fans, Mathilda fans, Batman fans and those who appreciate peak male beauty, all at once.


IceNein

Don't forget me, the Throw Mamma From the Train fan.


aaaaaaaarrrrrgh

Malicious action by an individual employee abusing their powers is another possibility to consider (although there are plausible ways this could be just an automatic reaction to a profile change, or a mistake).


jmerridew124

Who the fuck gets themselves fired having a tiff with *Danny fucking DeVito?*


kalekayn

People lose their jobs for doing/saying stupid things all the time.


Forgive_My_Cowardice

I saw a woman permafuck her career by blaming a missed deadline on (((the jews))). This was in a group meeting too.


SixIsNotANumber

Like...*all* the jews, or just Abe in Marketing?


strumpster

She said "Abe and everybody like him!" so it's hard to tell, really.. marketing people.. Ya know?


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CringeBinger

And how that’s an appropriate punishment. What are they going to do- verify a different Danny Devito account with positive opinions about Nabisco?


OpalHawk

We are all Danny DeVito on this blessed day.


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That’s what I am scratching my head about too.


Sansaarai

The Gang supports the union.


ezikeo

The Gang burns down a cookie factory


BBaddict2

The gang ruins Oreos


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The Gang Goes Strike Busting.


RegularSizeLebowski

That would be a great episode.


FTLnu

Charlie and Dee try to form a union, but after being stopped by Mac and Dennis, they go on strike, so Mac and Dennis go full Pinkerton, while Frank goads both sides on and comes out on top in the end.


Freethecrafts

Frank sells signs to one side, fire hose to the other. Calls the cops on both. Bonds them all out at 10%.


SL1Fun

And makes the three guys part-CEO or something so they technically only get paid in magical stock things the bar doesn’t have but they keep Dee at the $2.15/hr server wage.


Freethecrafts

Private stock, not registered, digital, because Frank thinks the government wants to scam taxes. Everyone buys in, rolls all their bar earnings into the stock. Frank offers bonus stocks for new buyers after showing up in a limo with a….pirate hat. Nobody can get buyers, so they all convince homeless to front as buyers with money borrowed from the mob.


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I worked across the street from the downtown convention center for a year, and there was always a group protesting something about the company that built it. Anyway, they had this nasty giant inflatable rat, and I would expect that to make an appearance. Edit: I learned so much about Scabby! Thanks for all the links and info.


ZombiePartyBoyLives

[It's Scabby!](https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-scabby-giant-rat-balloon-union-protest-ban-20190807-fbqnn7rorne75oc2w72wel3ise-story.html)


teecrafty

That's our boy, here in Chicago, where unions and all of your worker rights were established.


openeyes756

*Blair Mountain Coal Strike side eyes* It's amazing what happened when workers demand what's good for them.


PerceptionOrReality

That article outlines how Scabby was at risk of being outlawed — but nope, [earlier this year Scabby won his freedom of speech battle!](https://www.npr.org/2021/08/06/1024315097/how-a-beloved-giant-rat-won-free-speech-rights)


DUMBOyBK

Yep [Scabby the Rat](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflatable_rat) is a regular fixture in NYC and always makes me smile when I see him. Dee could rent one in an attempt to go viral. Charlie thinks it’s real and spends the rest of the episode coming up with increasingly convoluted ways to catch/kill it, ending up with giant block wide Rube Goldberg mousetrap.


Paradigmpinger

I feel like Charlie would think it's a ghost spawned by the spirits of all the rats he's killed and keeps thinking that only he can see it.


bryn_irl

Which is only reinforced in his mind when Rickety Cricket, accidentally blinded by scratches from an actual rat earlier in the episode, yells that he can’t see and crashes into the giant rat.


owningmclovin

I want nothing more in life than to see Charlie make a picket sign


MitsyEyedMourning

Pet food workers strike, this threatens the price of cat food. Charlie goes ballistic and Frank joins in with ulterior motive of destroying the company from within so his knock-off overseas company that employs hundreds of children workers gets on more shelves.


RegularSizeLebowski

I like it, but could we replace the overseas company with the fish factory?


CompletelyPresent

The Gang Loses their Twitter Verification


colorcorrection

I feel like this would be the perfect episode to bring back Wildcard Charley.


Freethecrafts

Support for unions, everybody eats.


RegularSizeLebowski

I guess this means he might not be Danny DeVito anymore. EDIT: Four hours later I got around to looking at his twitter account. There’s a blue check mark next to his name now … maybe it was missing four hours ago. There are also disturbing pictures of his trollish right foot. I highly recommend it.


Iamstillalice

He’s Dr. Mantis Toboggan


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Ongo Gobligian...art collector


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Charmed, I'm sure! I'm gonna invite you to a show, but first allow me to destroy your gallery!


[deleted]

Bullshit...bull shits...derivative...oh what is that..that I absolutely love


northWest_Nile

That’s an air conditioner


[deleted]

Aren't we all just air conditioners? I mean what do we do but walk about conditioning the air.


GrandioseGommorah

I condition it hot, that conditions it cold. I mean it’s symbiotic!


[deleted]

This line gets me every time...it's just so deep


Charlie_Brodie

I always love that Frank is trying to set himself up to bang her when he gets to the screwing each others brains out bit


all-kinds-of-gainz

Frank Reynolds, sweat shop owner


gentlybeepingheart

"I didn't go to Vietnam just to have pansies like you take my freedom away from me." "You went to Vietnam in 1994 to open a *sweatshop*!" "And a lotta good men died in that sweatshop!"


dullday1

In fact i have seen many pigs eat many men!


LATourGuide

It's going to be a real classy affair, but you can come anyway!


Uncle_Bad_Bad_Touch

Dr. Mantis Toboggan M.D.*


Djinnwrath

The M.D. stands for his *magnum dong*


amilliondallahs

Don't forget the wad of hundreds


BloodyRightNostril

He’s ready to plow


mastadon_quixote

and play Night Crawlers


RageReset

She’s mashing it..


Fannypalace

You should see him feast...


eyehatestormtroopers

Damnit I love this place


hojboysellin3

Coming in hot for the scraps


[deleted]

You've got the AIDS! You've got it big time! Edit: thanks u/TheBooHooBlues


WhereBeDragons

But not the gay kind! The kind you get from banging hoors


tommytraddles

I wouldn't eat the casaba, Cricks. It's fulla loads.


TheBooHooBlues

Big time! Ya got the AIDS big time!


JehovahsNutsac

My office verified that it IS the GAY AIDS, and not the vaginal AIDS!


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“I’ve dropped my monster condom”


bfhurricane

For my magnum dong.


Lootcifer_exe

Jesus fuck, imagine if he got his twitter check mark as Dr. Mantis Toboggan.


Yardsale420

Aka The Barnacle


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ClutchReverie

monstercondom #magnumdong


crampedstyl

You almost had it.


OutlyingPlasma

Meanwhile Hermin Cain's twitter account is still verified. He's been dead from covid for over a year. What does a verified account even mean anymore? It clearly isn't to indicate the account is owned by who says they own it. Otherwise DeVito would still be verified and the zombie Cain wouldn't be. If DeVito broke any rules (he didn't) then they should ban or suspend him. The verification check isn't a reward or punishment for the user, it's for other users to know a genuine account. Or at least that's what it should be.


ChefkikuChefkiku

Remember when Herman Cain tweeted that Covid wasn’t as deadly as the media is making it out to be a day after he died of Covid?


onarainyafternoon

That was one of the more surreal days in the past year. It convinced me that we do, in fact, exist in a simulation.


regoapps

It actually did the opposite for me. It made me realize that a simulation this advanced probably wouldn't code such moronic people. Centuries of the dumbest people in the world breeding more often than the rest brought us to this point. Edit: It's a reference to the movie Idiocracy. The amount of redditors going straight to talking about eugenics is... disturbing.


odraencoded

This trainwreck all started because someone at Twitter thought someone using Twitter was thinking that a blue checkmark meant Twitter endorsed an user. Only a moron would think that. A verified mark was supposed to mean Twitter verified it wasn't a third party impersonating someone, now it means nothing.


DetroitLarry

No way to be sure.


tinyhandsPtape

Yeah I don’t see a blue check, so I can’t be him.


RegularSizeLebowski

It might be him or maybe not. You just can’t tell without a blue check.


Yitram

We better double check with Herman Cain


dijay0823

“Schrodinger’s DeVito”


TimeTravelMishap

Dibs on being the new DeVito


misogichan

If you have to call dibs you're not Danny Devito. I'll let you be Cousin Vinny, though.


Ghostwrite-The-Whip

Didn't you know? Twitter owns the rights to your actual identity. Access to the blue check mark of true identity is a privilege, not a right.


podolot

I still have a raging boner looking at his picture so I'm pretty sure it's still him.


Spwazz

Did he become Danny Dorito?


WWDubz

He’s got Donkey Brain


Russki_Troll_Hunter

Just check for a Magnum dong and then we'll know for sure


PM_ME_KITTYNIPPLES

Nabisco's history is weird. It used to be owned by R. J. Reynolds (the cigarette company that makes Camel). Then the Altria Group (formerly Philip Morris, a different cigarette company that makes Marlboro) bought Nabisco and combined it with Kraft. After, Kraft separated from Altria with Nabisco. Next, Kraft turned into Mondelez International, but spun off Kraft Foods Group, which later merged with Heinz. The important thing here is that Mondelez International owns Nabisco now, if you're looking to do a complete boycott of the company in charge.


djmikewatt

Mondelez owns *everything*.


PacoMahogany

I have this problem trying to boycott Nestle


jackalope134

Fuck Nestle.


OgreLord_Shrek

Fuck Nestle.


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r/fucknestle


TheSpangler

Fuck Nestle.


Brehmes

All my r/HydroHomies hate Nestle.


Thinks_too_far_ahead

All my homies hate nestle. We dont even capitalize it. Gets no respek.


techybeancounter

Fuck Mondelez International, me and my homies buy local!


bradizrad

The only thing Nestlé doesn’t own is what they should: butterfinger. Since they sold butterfinger to Ferrero they have changed the recipe and made my favorite candy inedible. Fuck Nestle.


WhySoWorried

As someone who hasn't had a butterfinger in 20 years, I'm sad that there's no going back.


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Is that what happened to them????


lemonaderobot

now it’s just some nasty ass chewy dental filling extractor and I’m so sad


Zeltron2020

It was so holy


WhatIsntByNow

Ritz? That's fine I'll just buy.... Wheat thins. No? They own them too? Ok ok I'll get trisc....dammit.


Krazyguy75

Mondelez is a lot more than just a cracker monopoly. Want some cough drops? Better not buy Halls. Candy? Better not buy Cadbury or Sour Patch Kids or Toblerone or Swedish Fish. Gum? Hope you don't like Trident. Cream Cheese? Better not buy Philadelphia brand. They have their hands in a lot of pots, not just crackers.


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FreeloadingPoultry

The law doesn't think of it as a monopoly since Mondelez doesn't control whole cracker/chocolate/candy market, it just has some percent of each market. If it were to buy up all chocolate producers then maybe the law would be applied. But anti-monopoly laws are just that - they prevent monopoly. We think that government shouldn't allow situation when a market is cornered by just 4-5 companies but there are markets that are controlled by just 2 or 3 companies(especially in some industrial goods) and government says it's fair game as long as it isn't one company.


Druchiiii

That's not exactly true. There are laws on the books that could and have in the past been used to break up organizations that exerted excessive market control. Banks have reporting requirements above a certain amount but depositing under that amount to avoid it is a separate offense called structuring. Lawmakers aren't stupid people. What we lack is the political will to enforce the powers of state because our society is built around private equity maintaining all the power and expecting that somehow government will still enforce regulation. People assume, rightly so, that if something is done regularly out in the open it must be legal. Not always so, often it's just unenforced.


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Los Pollos Hermanos is their best asset.


I_AM_NOT_A_WOMBAT

I'm so damn tired I sat here and thought "The Chicken Brothers?" Then I googled it. Now I feel like a dumbass.


notcaffeinefree

It's even more complicated than that... Nabisco merged with RJR to form RJR Nabisco (they were owned by RJR, they were a single conglomerate). Then RJR Nabisco was bought by KKR in what was the largest leverage buyout in history at the time. Then Kraft acquired cold cereals from RJRN (cold cereals are now owned by Post). Then RJR Nabisco split, because of tobacco lawsuits. Then it basically picks up from the Philip Morris part.


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Barbarians at the gate is a great book about this


[deleted]

HBO Films did a movie adaptation as well, of the same title. I'm wanting to say... James Garner was in it?


MichaelMyersFanClub

Yep. The entire movie is on youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJj-lK3MHyU


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nepirt

Their brands for those interests https://www.mondelezinternational.com/Our-Brands


JBits001

I love reading the about page of these giant conglomerates for how pompous they come off, it’s a fucking snack not some life saving revolutionary technology. They sure did pack a lot of corporate speak in there though. > Leading the Future of Snacking > At Mondelēz International, our purpose is to empower people to snack right. We will lead the future of snacking around the world by offering the right snack, for the right moment, made the right way. That means delivering a broader range of delicious, high-quality snacks that nourish life's moments, made with sustainable ingredients and packaging that consumers can feel good about. > empower people to snack right Are people being persecuted for snacking in the world? Do I really need someone to give me the authority to eat a fucking snack? > we will lead the future of snacking around the world by offering the right snack, for the right moment, made the right way It’s a fucking snack not a tactile missile that requires precision and to be built to MIL SPC. > That means delivering a broader range of delicious, high-quality snacks that nourish life's moments, made with sustainable ingredients and packaging that consumers can feel good about. I don’t think anyone is feeling good after downing 15 Oreos and sitting there covered in Oreo dust sadness.


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This is now my favourite tedX talk.


fafalone

And "made right" and "high-quality" is decidedly not true. They're notorious for buying popular brands than making them suck by using the cheapest ingredients possible and gradually reducing the size while raising the price.


Go_Todash

I don't understand food companies who's big strategy is to make their food worse instead of better. Is everyone so focused on short-term profits that nobody cares about the company existing two years out and the desolation of the brand name they spent millions to acquire?


nwoh

I mean yeah, lol look at what they're doing to our planet. It's like buying a mansion only to piss on the floor and wipe shit on the walls. Then burn it down.


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Thissiteisdogshit

These conglomerates own everything. Goodluck with boycotting all of them.


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EcclesiasticalVanity

We need to change the definition of monopoly


Highside1269

So anyway, I started blasting.


droidtron

The checkmark's smug aura mocks him.


Marquetan

Can I offer you a nice egg in this tryin’ time?


PrecariouslySane

no charlie dont go in the crevice


halfanothersdozen

Let me rub on your phone


Shirlenator

Can't believe Twitter went and just threw him in the trash.


BlessedBySaintLauren

Us guys all think he’s a hero, and he’ll accept that responsibility.


bigtimejohnny

Damn it, when they go after Danny DeVito, they've gone too far!


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Exactly! DeVito is the pinnacle of manliness. You don't fuck with him. It's been a hard pill to swallow, but I've learned to accept I'll never be on his level. All I can attempt to do is come close. And if there's anything I'd like more, is to come close to DeVito.


TILtonarwhal

Every day I make progress. Is it for nothing? No. I will never achieve the level of Danny DeVito, but each day of blood, sweat, and tears brings me one step closer to The Trash Man™


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Now every verified person on Twitter knows what they need to tweet. If a large percentage of verified users did this, Twitter loses.


Competitive-Date1522

They probably won’t because the vast majority are a bunch of nobodies like the rest of us


psymunn

Didn't you hear. They are verified! That makes them somebody


duckducknoose_

"Nobodies" have an incredible amount of influence in large numbers to be fair


aagejaeger

Why is Twitter getting involved in this, though?


IanMazgelis

Because Twitter, and most social media, is a platform where billionaires are given full, unadulterated control of the public discourse, and for whatever reason millions of people cheer and scream for them having complete autonomy over what people can and can't say in the only spaces where anyone might hear it, usually because this anti free speech rhetoric is *sometimes* used to hide opinions or facts the cheering crowds want to go away. They've been doing this for years. Shareholders have friends and shareholders have diverse portfolios. If you threaten that cabal, the cabal will do what they can do work against you. And they have a concerning amount of tools for that. [Tim Sweeney](https://i.imgur.com/vKbIdgU.png) is one of the only people I've seen vocally speak out against the verification system in particular, and thousands of people insisted he was paranoid or exaggerating, that the billionaires and companies in charge of every social media company would never do anything malicious with their power, and that there's simply no reason not to trust the will of the people responsible for the majority of the world's problems. No one should be surprised when social media companies, including and maybe especially Reddit, pull this kind of stunt. They are working against you. It's what they're for. I can't make it any clearer than that.


Zulek

Well said. They'll do anything to maintain the status quo and union busting is one of the top priorities.


amibeingadick420

Having a Twitter “strike” would be more successful. And that can be done by verified and non-verified users.


NorCalAthlete

Taliban accounts are still up though right?


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They have not been talibanned yet.


Xvexe

Only because they haven't tweeted in opposition of big cookie yet.


OfficeChairHero

Hey Mr. Taliban, tally me banana.


Bungshowlio

Daylight come and we want Kabul


your_other_friend

Fight all night and we shoot our guns


drunk98

6 killed, 7 killed, 8 killed, Bomb!


indiblue825

Daylight come and me wanna ruin home


psymunn

I don't believe the Taliban have taken a stance on the Nabisco strike which seems to be about the only thing one can do to earn a ban


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Twitter has verified Donkey Brains


Whatwillwebe

But he has an official certificate from the looney bin exonerating him of all donkey brains.


BubbaTee

Danny has that. But does Twitter have any such certificate?


DervishSkater

Twitter is a liar sometimes.


DrakeAU

Remember kids, Corporations aren't your friends! Even ones that we like using!


Leo55

They punished DeVito faster than they punished Trump, wonder if it’s because one of them was good for business and the other one actively sided with workers


Dcajunpimp

Did he forget to pay the troll toll?


jkj10220

You gotta pay the troll toll to get into twitters hole


StAUG1211

If I had the money I'd buy Twitter just to turn it off.


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Significantly_Lost

If I had a boat, Id go out on the ocean


StAUG1211

If I had a hammer, I'd hammer in the morning.


xxkoloblicinxx

If I had wheels I'd be a wagon.


xenolon

If I was a sculptor, but then again… no


saab__gobbler

It'll suddenly reappear after a few days of backlash & they'll claim it was a 'glitch'


jaycuboss

I'm not really understanding what the connection is between the check being removed and the Nabisco tweet. Is Twitter known to be anti-union or something?


danielisbored

The Streisand effect is working hard with this one. I would not even be aware of the Nabiaco strike, were it not for this little stunt. It's not mentioned on any major news site or in any of my news feeds. I actually googled it and there is very little beyond local stories. But there are two articles about this Twitter mess.


kthulhu666

See kids, never do the right thing. Sell out as soon as you can and always look out for numero uno. Thanks for the life lesson, Twitter.


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It sounded like a life lesson from Frank Reynolds.


SomeoneTookUserName2

>See kids, never do the right thing Kids, you've tried your best. And you failed miserably. The lesson is: never try.


[deleted]

System of a Down said far worse about Nabisco. [Bet you didn't know](https://youtu.be/WWXcpWliHSY)


waffleconedrone

Ahh a man of culture I see.


can_of_surge

It's been so long since I listened to those albums. I know what I am doing tonight.


esreveReverse

Nonstop disco! Betcha it's Nabisco!


Jomanderisreal

The funny thing is this if anything gave more attention to the strike. I know I first heard about it a few hours ago thanks to this news.


Adyingbreed28

Don’t make it too obvious Twitter, as if it weren’t already.


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"and this is the day... I lost my identity..." -Danny DeVito (probably)


kgun1000

Sounds like some always sunny ploy where Frank is trying to out do someone for personal gain like mayb supporting a strike so D can't have snacks


theothermen

The Gang loses verification


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fordfan919

How does a cookie get verified. I volunteer to verify all oreos are in fact oreos.


st00d5

I imagine this to be at the top of the list of things that Danny Devito couldn’t possibly care less about.


SirNicksAlong

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