What is your overall opinion on Oliver Cromwell? I find him an

Cancerous more than divisive, desu

>>1138169
dickhead

>>1138169
More like Jewlover Jewmwell. Fag let the Jews into England and installed Jewish usury in England. May he rest in piss.

>>1138254
>usury
>implying economies can run well without interest based finance

Do you think banks are supposed to be fucking charities?

>>1138265
Have a state run bank for public service,and have business loans equate to shares.

He was one of the Elect. Thus he not only had his ticket to Heaven booked but all his actions were , by definition, "Godly". The Elect cant sin.

>>1138169
Pretty based desu

"Cromwell committed genocide" is a huge meme. Except for Drogheda and Wexford, there are no other particularly violent events in his Ireland campaign, and in fact, the Parliamentary Army was much preferred by the Irish peasantry as they never looted indiscriminately and always paid a fair price. The massive population reduction in Ireland during this period is due to local guerrilla warfare between the four factions campaigning on the island, in particular the Royalists.

>>1138390

>this level of retardation.

How do you decide what businesses get loans?

Goddamn.

This is why banks (and everybody who lends real money) need to charge interest: not everybody pays back the loans. There are obviously other reasons, but consider what would happen to a bank that charged no interest on loans.

They would go out of business. If you make 100 loans of $100 each, and only 98% of people pay back those loans, the bank is out $200 bucks.

Additionally, money has a time value, we have inflation, AND you have to spend money actually having people analyze what loans are worthwhile, hassling people to pay back their loans in a timely manner, maintaining records of loans, etc.

>>1138425
This entire comment in bullshit

>>1138425
>Except for Drogheda and Wexford, there are no other particularly violent events in his Ireland campaign
What is the Cromwellian Land Settlement, ass.

>>1138476
Compare Drogheda to Magdeburg

The Irish genocide was a meme

>>1138481
>implying the Cromwellian land settlement wasn't just continuation of Stuart policy in Ireland, expanded upon because Parliament owed people money

Try again

>>1138506
>Violent, Brutal Policies aren't violent if they possess elements of continuity.
Well then I guess the whole Cromwellian military campaign was completely unjustifiable in the face of the non-violent actions of the Confederacy.

>>1138486
>Compare Drogheda to Magdeburg
Why?

>The Irish genocide was a meme
Describing anything as genocide before the concept of genocide existed is a meme. Doesn't change the fact that your comment is straight bullshit

>>1138443
If you have shares in every successful venture, that covers a lot of it. The rest is covered by virtue of the bank being a public service, like public healthcare.

Wexford and Drogheda were not exceptional either in Ireland or in the British Civil Wars of the mid 17th century. That they became so is more about the restored monarchy's desire to demonise Cromwell. Who, on arrival in Ireland did something to set the tone for his campaign that no previous English general in Ireland had done - hanged some of his own soldiers for looting.

The generally accepted 'laws' of war prior to the 20th century were that the people in a town that resisted to the point of being stormed were not entitled to any quarter. This is true from before the Romans right through to the Duke of Wellington describing Badajoz as 'not a useless effusion of blood'

>>1138169
bourgeois revoloutionary against the nobility and the system of feudalism, led the best revoloution up until the successful french bourgeois revoloution

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>>1138522

>bank is a public service like public healthcare

>>1138169
He probably should have just accepted the crown when offered it.