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me: "so you think men are better at literally everything, even things that do not require any physical ability whatsoever?"

terf: "yes! those should still be segregated by sex! males should not be playing against women ever. it's an unfair advantage"

me: "so my brother has an unfair advantage over me when playing fucking monopoly?"

terf: "yes. males are statistically better and managing finances, while women are irresponsible and lenient with spending money."

Gee, it's almost like a whole portion of the fight happened off screen. There's no reason to believe Ace didn't use Haki against Blackbeard. We didn't see much of their more hand to hand fight but Van Augur's comment when he praises Ace's basic fighting skills seem to support that he did use haki. It just wasn't enough against Blackbeard.

It couldn't have been enough against the man who managed to injure Shanks, who had his guard up. If haki was all it took to defeat Blackbeard, he wouldn't be shaping up to be (one of) the final antagonists.

People also like to forget that Teach does not ever fight fair. Ace was trying to fight honourably (for example, the fact that he announced himself and let Teach prepare) against a man who does not care about honour and just wants to win the game. Not only that, but Teach’s crew were ALSO attacking Ace. This was not a 1v1 fight until Teach finally called his crew off (and we don’t really know if they STAYED out of it since like OP mentions, half the fight is off screen. We don’t know what it took to drag Ace all the way to the marines.)

Then there’s Teach’s devil fruit. A lot of people didn’t and still don’t know the insane capabilities of the Yami Yami no mi. Ace was caught off guard by the devil fruits nullification. That, along with the fact that Teach’s devil fruit is the natural enemy of Ace’s. Ace lacked critical information. Meanwhile, Teach had had years to study Ace’s fighting style. It’s implied several times that he and Ace were actually very close and Ace had lots of respect for Teach. He WATCHED Ace train with Thatch. He WATCHED Ace’s fights with Whitebeard.

Teach knew exactly what made Ace tick and what his capabilities were, whereas Ace had NEVER considered attacking his friend before Thatch’s murder.

To continue our commitment to user safety and to comply with local laws, we will start using age groups to determine access to certain experiences.

People in Brazil or in the UK, who are 18 or older, will soon need to verify their age to change content label settings and view mature-labeled content. Until then, the settings will be locked to hide.

As a reminder, verification is handled by our age-assurance partner, k-ID. Tumblr won't have access to the information you submit, just the final age-verification result. Documents are deleted after confirmation, and facial scan data never leaves your device. 

The platform DOES allow pornographic ads though and this ironically won’t be affected.

If you think this won’t affect you so it doesn’t matter, just remember this is the test run and they WILL keep pushing if there’s no push back.

Staff has officially posted an update regarding the reblog decoupling, and while they are reversing the change for now, we need to look closely at the language they are using. This is a classic example of corporate "double speak" designed to de-escalate a PR crisis while keeping the door open for the same harmful features later.

The Post: Reblog Update: We’re Reversing the Change

The Red Flag:

"We still believe there's a better version of how reblogs can work. One that gives every voice in a chain the credit it deserves. But we want to get there with you."

The Breakdown: When they say they want to give every voice the credit it deserves, they are still justifying the decoupling of notes. They are framing the destruction of the original creator's attribution as a feature for the rebloggers or the loss of community. Their goal hasn't changed. They just realized their current execution was a technical and social disaster.

They also mention working "directly with some of you." This often means selecting a small, curated group of "power users" who may not prioritize the accessibility or safety needs that we have been fighting for.