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03-23-2018, 04:08 AM
Damn. CL was a goldmine at times, and the source of many an adventure. Any idea where people will gravitate to?
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03-24-2018, 06:05 PM
Damn this sucks. The only online avenue I pulled more chicks off of CL is tinder. The fed gets more powerful everyday.
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03-24-2018, 06:42 PM
Thought experiment: What would happen if all online dating apps ceased to exist? (Imagine a meddling alien species blocked them.)
Wouldn't the world be a better place?
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03-24-2018, 10:02 PM
Quote: (03-24-2018 06:42 PM)ElFlaco Wrote:
Thought experiment: What would happen if all online dating apps ceased to exist? (Imagine a meddling alien species blocked them.)
Wouldn't the world be a better place?
They should definitely all be banned, because there are whores on every app.
We'll see who really has game when the tide recedes.
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03-24-2018, 10:19 PM
That law is some bullshit, any platform can be abused-Holding the host liable for what the users do is a bad precedent.
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Craigslist shuts down Personal Ads because of new Congress law
03-25-2018, 02:09 PM
Damn, where am I going to find chicks to play out my weird fetishes now.
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03-25-2018, 08:14 PM
Reading those CL ads was an endless source of amusement. It never ceased to amaze me that people would place the most disgusting pictures of themselves online for the world to see. All because they had a slight possibility of having sex. I'm old enough to remember "swinger" magazines. A friend once compared the pictures in those to a study of shaved whales.
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03-26-2018, 11:52 AM
Sucks. There was some great intel in those ads.
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03-26-2018, 12:55 PM
Trafficking, Rape, Grooming, Privilege, Supremacy, Spectrum, Hate Speech, Sexual Harassment, Consent, Cat Calling, Harm, Actual Harm, Bias, Implicit bias, Actual Violence.
It is funny how so many words can be expanded hysterically to include almost any behavior, male behavior that is.
It is funny too how Jordan Peterson was labelled hysteric when he said that the law in Canada not only making it illegal to call a man in a dress 'he,' but making your employer liable for your 'misgendering' whether they knew about it or not and whether you did it intentionally or not, was setting a dangerous precedent.
The common thread here is a move away from the 'reasonable person' standard to the 'most upset person' standard.
Or we could say, a move away from the spirit of the law to the letter of the law.
And who loves the letter of the law better than petty tyrants, who get to act out all their power fantasies under the guise of fake altruism?
Don't know about you, but sometimes I am hyper vigilant about what I say, and nervous as a cat.
Who in the world would want half of the population constantly second guessing themselves?
Coincidentally, the half of the population who are really good at getting things done when they put their minds to it?
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03-26-2018, 01:29 PM
This should be very simple to copycat in a new hosting location. I give it 4 weeks before there's a new main alternative.
Either that or it will simply die to Tinder, etc. Was this any popular? In Europe, Craigslist is basically dead.
Losers always whine about their best. Winners go home and fuck the prom queen.
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03-26-2018, 01:44 PM
You now need game to get laid? How awful!
If you're not fucking her, someone else is.
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03-30-2018, 02:14 PM
Quote: (03-24-2018 10:02 PM)churros Wrote:
Quote: (03-24-2018 06:42 PM)ElFlaco Wrote:
Thought experiment: What would happen if all online dating apps ceased to exist? (Imagine a meddling alien species blocked them.)
Wouldn't the world be a better place?
They should definitely all be banned, because there are whores on every app.
We'll see who really has game when the tide recedes.
Spoken like someone who hasn't gotten results from online dating platforms.
Either adapt or die. Saying these whore-filled apps should be banned is no different than a guy saying all these whore-filled bars and clubs should be shut down because he hasn't been getting laid from them.
I could see it now:
"we should shut down every bar and club in the country! That should teach these whores to only allow aggressive extroverted good-looking guys to bang them! Bring back the good old days where only *true* game was needed to bed a woman!"
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03-30-2018, 02:34 PM
Quote: (03-30-2018 02:14 PM)The_e_man Wrote:
Quote: (03-24-2018 10:02 PM)churros Wrote:
Quote: (03-24-2018 06:42 PM)ElFlaco Wrote:
Thought experiment: What would happen if all online dating apps ceased to exist? (Imagine a meddling alien species blocked them.)
Wouldn't the world be a better place?
They should definitely all be banned, because there are whores on every app.
We'll see who really has game when the tide recedes.
Spoken like someone who hasn't gotten results from online dating platforms.
Either adapt or die. Saying these whore-filled apps should be banned is no different than a guy saying all these whore-filled bars and clubs should be shut down because he hasn't been getting laid from them.
I could see it now:
"we should shut down every bar and club in the country! That should teach these whores to only allow aggressive extroverted good-looking guys to bang them! Bring back the good old days where only *true* game was needed to bed a woman!"
If you haven't found any literal whores on tinder, you clearly haven't seen very much of the world. Keep swiping those toronto sluts bro.
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04-02-2018, 11:53 AM
This is actually a bummer - as a 40+ yr old married guy - CL was full of fake ads and flaky girls - but where else could I post what I was looking for (a slut, a recent college grad, a lunch time fuck...) WITHOUT a photo (key for us married guys) and every once in a while have some fun. I met several women per year there - may not seem like many to you younger guys but I don't have time for constant gaming, rarely go out to bars....
I've tried Tinder but have had zero luck. I think it is because I would log in, swipe away for 15-20 minutes, then hide my profile so that my photo wasn't "out there" in the world for people (ie friends of the wife) to see. So girls could never see me.
I assume if I had no face pics I'd still get zero responses....thoughts?
All that said I'm really trying to stop looking for pussy on the side - certainly significantly reduced - but life and needs get complicated....and sometimes, every once in a while - you just need some strange.
Curious where people who are looking for truly discreet nsa encounters will go.
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04-02-2018, 12:12 PM
This whole story is really fascinating to me. Craigslist has always been a proponent of internet freedom so I'm surprised to see them lay down this easy.
Cook County Sherrif ie Chicago Tom Dart went after them years ago and made them take down the erotic services section. I'm surprised a "dating section" would come down as well. IF they are at jeapardy for running w4m or even platonic sections how is Tinder, OkCupid and every other dating site not at risk to get raked in by this law?
The only thing I can think of is the government already has it out for Craigslist so they would fuck with them. Also not sure how backpage can still stay up as there site is clearly much more so prostitution whether were talking massage or w4m.
I know we have a lot of people on this site into crypto. This is exactly what decentralization and crypto was intended for. With a company or an individual "behind" a company or backing a company there's a target to go after and they can also get teh hosting shut down.
With decentralization there's no central hosting point, there's no company, there's no known person to go after. If I was looking to get into the crypto space I'd start a Craigslist Casual Encounters 2.0 and charge a small fee for posting.
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04-02-2018, 04:18 PM
Quote: (03-24-2018 06:42 PM)ElFlaco Wrote:
Thought experiment: What would happen if all online dating apps ceased to exist? (Imagine a meddling alien species blocked them.)
Wouldn't the world be a better place?
....for men with game yes.
for most men. no.
Attraction and passion are non-negotiable
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04-03-2018, 11:21 AM
This is happening at the same time that soy is shutting down libidos.
Will be greeted with an open mouthed smile and a night time micro-dribble on the sheets.
Now where did I put my one speed bike?
And what were we talking about a minute ago?
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