Short version: Drew, their employee with the most public facing role and known to be a chill guy and left-leaning, left the company with some celebration but zero explanation. This got folks looking, and they saw that the Goulets are heavily involved with planting (think “franchising” or may more accurately “metastasizing”) a new church that was growing out from a larger one that has all the usual disgusting anti-LGBT+ rhetoric, and the new church has a mission statement that includes bible literalism and explicitly places men above women in home life and church roles. Also, Reddit being Reddit, the mods handled it all very clumsily and in a way that makes it look they’ve traded their integrity for a couple of pens.

  • clif
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    74 months ago

    Anybody got a suggestion for a better retailer?

    I’ve spent quite a lot of money at Goulet over the years.

    • @mongooseofrevenge@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      They ones that come to my mind are:

      Goldspot, Vaness, Pen Chalet, Jet Pens, Birmingham Pens, Amarillo Stationery, Pen Boutique, Anderson Pens, Cult Pens, Endless Pens, Enigma Stationery,

      Lots of options.

      • clif
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        34 months ago

        Thanks bud, I’ll check them out.

      • @vext01M
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        14 months ago

        Cult pens are good.