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Rockefellers hired militias to shoot at strikers in Ludlow massacre
- drcross 7y agoSometimes I feel like the headlines to the stories on HN are made procedurally using AI and then an article is created to back up the story. I'd have no way to know the truth.
- jacobush 7y agoWe were so afraid you would kill our children, We dug us a cave that was seven foot deep, Carried our young ones and pregnant women Down inside the cave to sleep.
- dmos62 7y agoThe URL title is much better: rockefellers-hired-militias-to-shoot-at-strikers-in-ludlow-massacre-115ae488164c
- sam_lowry_ 7y agoWhich means that the original title had Rockfellers in it.
- nothrabannosir 7y agoNot necessarily. The URL can be chosen separately to improve SEO, where the title optimises for clickbait.
- xiphias2 7y agoYou're right, I just checked another article from the same author...what she is doing is ugly, I'm happy that the article is already flagged: When this Ivy League school planned a segregated gymnasium, students held the dean hostage https://timeline.com/columbia-student-activists-fought-gym-crow-a13ebf25b5bd https://timeline.com/columbia-student-activists-fought-gym-c...
- dmos62 7y ago> what she is doing is ugly Agreed, but it's just click-bait. There's a million copy writers like this, literally. Also, the person writing the article, and the person click-baitifying articles, and the person SEOifying articles might be three different people.
- hkmurakami 7y agoI’m honestly surprised that they couldn’t just name Rockefeller in this headline.
- praptak 7y agoI think this title is actually better. It's class war. Names don't matter, the class status does.
- kolinko 7y agoYeah, such a loaded title it’s almost a clickbait
- ratsmack 7y agoIsn't the whole idea of a title to entice readers to click on it?... why would one want to do otherwise?
- ratsmack 7y agoI'm surprised this article was written at all. It seems sometimes that there are certain subjects about certain people that just aren't discussed.
- tanilama 7y agobad title
- ahbyb 7y agoSeemingly, according to the author men do not matter. Let's check her post history... ooops. https://timeline.com/@meaganday https://timeline.com/@meaganday
- dagaci 7y agoBut with the orchestrated death of men, woman and children. Did anyone actually go to jail?
- folkhack 7y agoThose with vast amounts of wealth never go to jail unless they step on the toes of someone else with a vast amount of wealth. It's how it's always been. The only people who were imprisoned were those oppressed, I guarantee it.
- dmos62 7y agoThe kind of story you expect to see a Hollywood movie about. In 1914, after decades of feudalistic oppression, which culminated in two dozen men, women, children killed, a multi-national party (some veterans of various wars) went on a 10 day revenge spree around Colorado's mining fields, beating all opposition faced.
- jimnotgym 7y agoIt is an interesting if brief article. I don't see why everyone is obsessing over the title. The article was about what I expected to see after clicking through.
- dmos62 7y agoI can see that the referenced book [0] is on Library Genesis in pdf. It might be an interesting read. [0] https://books.google.be/books?id=0H93RqyCXboC https://books.google.be/books?id=0H93RqyCXboC
- em-bee 7y agoi learned about this event through woody guthries song some years ago. i never read anything else about it until today. this story more or less confirmed the picture that the song already created in my mind.