reddit User Successfully predicted "Paradise papers"

187  2017-11-05 by Vulpix199

35 comments

Yeah... that looks kinda legit to me... I'd chalk it up to coincidence but they put the word "Paradise" at the bottom... pretty solid.

Clearly astroturfing.

I don't think you know what that word means.

I don't think he knows what astroturfing is either lol.

Interesting, I tend to shy away from anonymous predictions, but looks like they did have insider info: https://np.reddit.com/r/PanamaPapers/comments/77n6ix/do_not_give_up_more_is_coming/dony0eq/

Yea we all know why you shy away from anon predictions. You're so insecure you don't want to believe in something that could be false to protect your weak self-esteem.

Not really, I've been wrong in the past plenty and learned to operate on actual evidence rather than other people's speculations... especially on a site that has so many various people with various agendas. Also, believe is a strong word, I'm always open to ideas infact I have various conspiracy theories that discredit each other if obe of them was true. But tell me more about the issues you seem to have with me, I'm all ears.

As a opposed to blindly believing something? Because that's not foolish at all.

/s bevause, unfortunately, this guy is proof that it's neede

Not blindly. You have to use your brain and see if it makes sense. Is it rational and realistic? Of course you're not bright enough to do this so you need evidence. Not to mention your low self esteem won't allow you to take a risk to accept something that doesn't have overwhelming evidence with giant red arrows pointing to one direction. Basically you are a weak sheep-minded person with low intellect and low self-esteem and I want stray away from you as much as possible. Just stop commenting on posts so I don't have to see your trash comments.

Yes. We that require evidence before declaring something as true are the stupid, weak-minded ones.

I have a few bridges for sale. I'll give you a great discount! I only sell my discount bridges to the truly intelligent.

That's like saying you want to shut off the judging part of your brain when you can't. You will always inherently judge in your head as a human being. That's why all humans have biases and prejudices even when they try not to be. You simply can't. But you pretend like you can because you are a low self-esteem coward.

The only reason you're saying "oh I won't believe in it unless there's evidence" is so you can SAVE FACE and CODDLE YOUR LOW SELF ESTEEM. In reality, you already have the judgment in your head but you don't want to say it to look stupid in front of people. The problem is to smart people like me YOU ALREADY LOOK STUPID.

The only reason you're saying "oh I won't believe in it unless there's evidence" is so you can SAVE FACE and CODDLE YOUR LOW SELF ESTEEM.

Haha, is this your shtick, go around crying about people who don't agree with your point of view or have actual standard's when looking at conspiracies?

...I know, I know, it's because I'm a moron with low self-esteem and actually requiring evidence to entertain specific theories. You should start a cult, if you can find people as dumb as you want them to be, I'm sure they'll believe in your BS thought process.

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It wasn't a prediction. Prediction would be a guess based on other info, like predicting trump will be impeached be a use of so many Russian connections. This was actual knowledge and information he had. Semantically and technically it was almost a leak.

It's a prediction till proven true, but you do have a valid point to a certain extent.

It's a prediction if he didn't know it was going to happen. He knew it was going to happen, hence why he had inside info such as their name and targets. His prediction was the date, as he did not know that. Also, and FYI, it was proven true to HIM--just not to us. That's why it wasn't a prediction because it was already proven true (just not from our limited perspective).

I still think it's a prediction by definition, but I'll agree to disagree.

Hilarious exchange. :) I was a little confused too, so I thought about it. If I see trains passing by every hour on the hour, but dont have a train schedule in front of me, I can make a "prediction" that the next train will also come on the hour.

However, if I have a schedule in front of me listing train times, it's no longer a prediction. I simply "know" when the trains are supposed to come, so if I tell anyone, it's me spreading info.

Basically, it can be either a prediction OR leak depending on the source of OP's info. Since none of us know, the classification cannot be made definitely.

However, if I have a schedule in front of me listing train times, it's no longer a prediction. I simply "know" when the trains are supposed to come, so if I tell anyone, it's me spreading info.

It's still a prediction by definition, also a prediction is still information that can be spread.

Basically, it can be either a prediction OR leak depending on the source of OP's info.

A leak and a prediction have nothing to do with one or the other. The like was today, the prediction was 2 weeks ago. They gave us a heads up to keep our eye peeled and said when the leak was and who it pertained to, but it wasn't a leak of raw data, it was a prediction.

Well, I'm not exactly arguing with what you're saying. Just trying to work out the semantics.

"I should add one more detail - the next leaks will involve senior members of the Trump administration, although I do not know when they will actually be published." His quote 16 days ago.

Also specifically called out Ross (in a comment).

I'd seen the posts at the time, noted them, didn't re-share. But interesting.

Shit that's no coincidence

Even referred to it in his posts as “Paradise.” No coincidence or luck here. Man knew.

Wow this astroturfing that is somehow backed by all the major papers coordinated to release at the same time is INCREDIBLE

People shouldn't be downvoting you. Truth should be revealed in all of its forms, but I was suspicious about the Panama Papers being a West-driven leak against its enemies (hence its Rothschild funding)... but given the recent events, the timing of the Paradise Papers isn't helping my initial assertion. Not to mention the "going to be released" (ie, giving a few hours of possible negotiations with certain players).

But hey, let the chips fall. Let's see what happens here.

I can't fucking wait

Now that's interesting

Wow! Yep, he knew.

NYT is part of this...chin stroke time

Could have been a journalist.

The Guardian and NYT. Pass.

And yet you probably trust way sketchier shit like infowars.

He is just sewing doubt. Don't let people yank your chain so easily. I fall for it too sometimes. I could be the eastern bunny, obama or the walking dead. You have no idea who anyone is that you don't know or havent carefully verified. Don't be led into emotional reactions by low effort negative elements like SixVIEdgy.

How many journalists did they say were working on this? I think if anything this user was more stupid than anything, leaking something like this. What point did it server? What problems could it have caused?

I still think it's a prediction by definition, but I'll agree to disagree.

The only reason you're saying "oh I won't believe in it unless there's evidence" is so you can SAVE FACE and CODDLE YOUR LOW SELF ESTEEM.

Haha, is this your shtick, go around crying about people who don't agree with your point of view or have actual standard's when looking at conspiracies?

...I know, I know, it's because I'm a moron with low self-esteem and actually requiring evidence to entertain specific theories. You should start a cult, if you can find people as dumb as you want them to be, I'm sure they'll believe in your BS thought process.

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