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Man pretending to fire a 'quaker gun', a decoy cannon made out of a log, US Civil War, 1862 (media.piefed.social)
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[โ€“] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 5 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I've known plenty of Quakers over the years. Prolly the one I knew earliest was my boss back in High School/ Undergrad. Fine folk as far as I can tell. Anyway, yes, I get the pun, but others might not.

[โ€“] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago

Weirdly enough they have a terrible track record with the American presidency. The only one was Nixon