Thread by @docrussjackson

Like Ghoulia Heartless-Spewer reads books.

Every cloud @Waterstones. 👍

I quite like Waterstones, but in May 2011 it was announced that A&NN Capital Fund Management, owned by Russian billionaire Alexander Mamut, had bought the chain for £53.5 MILLION, & in April 2018, hedge fund 'Elliott Management Corporation' bought a majority stake in the company.

Elliott Management Corporation is a US investment management firm - a vulture fund - founded by hard-right Republican donor Paul Singer, who supports pro-Israel causes, funding for the libertarian free-market Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, &, curiously, #LGBTQ rights.🤔

Now I certainly don't want to wade into the often polarised debate around trans rights, but shouldn't the Left be at least a bit curious about an exploitative hard-right Libertarian free-market neoliberal capitalist investing tens & possibly 100s of $millions in trans rights?

Singer is a nexus of neoconservatism; he chairs the Libertarian Manhattan Institute, & he’s given at least $3.6 million to the 'Foundation for Defense of Democracies', a hawksh outfit & "a Who’s Who of every unhinged neocon extremist in the country.”

paper-bird.net/2013/11/04/hrc…

When even George W Bush is concerned that investors like Paul Singer (financiers who take the assets built by others & manipulate them to make money for themselves) are affecting the USA & the world on a grand scale, shouldn't the Left at least be curious?
newyorker.com/magazine/2018/…