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And honestly, same. 

Rihanna! This is a network television show! Is it?

Do you see that? Looks like a joke image, right? Well, it isn’t.

This happens in Venezuela. It looks like nobody knows how is our crisis, because I’ve talked with a lot of people (Americans, French, Canadian and even Mexican people) who really don’t know what is happening.

I’ll explain the imagen.

In Venezuela, we haven’t medicines, even in the hospitals. This is because a patient with hypoglycemia is being attended in this way, because the hospital don’t have dextrose for the people. This is happening in Caracas, Venezuela’s capital. But not only in Caracas, is confirmed that in Maracaibo too, and who know where too.

Another cases:

“I take prednisone for animals because I can’t found it anywhere and it helps me, isn’t logic, but our health can’t wait”

“Confirmed, I’m medic performing in so many decadency. We even’t have privates places for dextrose for decompensated diabetics and believe me I could write for hours about so many that I’ve lived in the middle of this catastrophic crisis, where personally I’ve take with me a hurted pacient behind of a 350 because we haven’t ambulances, where we haven’t gloves for protect ourselves and a lot of  things like that, this is the reality…. It must be give “ORALLY” because the drink is rich in glucose (Sugar) for these pacients this imagen showes [She means the soda imagen] how is conected to a micromanager where it doesn’t looks very good… But it’s valid by an OROGASTRIC probe. As a heroic way, becase like we know “It’s incorrect”.

I even can give my own testomony. My mom is sick, and she must work everyday, I can’t help her because my leg is broken, and my brother must help his own family. She’s in pain everyday, and the money is too hard to found. If there’s money, but there’s no medicine. And, if there’s medicine, there’s no money, because all the treatments are very expensive, like everything, for our inflation on the 1600%.

Since 2014, our crisis is worse with the health zone. There’s no too many medicines, and a lot of operations and treatments are delayed for this same reason.

The hospitals don’t have spaces, litters or beds for the patients.

If you go to a farmacy, there’s no medicine.

A lot of hospitals are in a terrible state.

Supplies that were lacking in public hospitals included sterile gloves and gauze, antiseptics, alcohol for medical use, scalpels, needles, catheters, intravenous solutions, nebulizers and surgical sutures. It was even common to lack basic cleaning supplies (such as bleach), which are essential to ensure a sterile environment in hospitals. Unhealthy conditions have led to in-hospital infections that could have been prevented.

And this is only talking about the health zone.

If we talk about the food shortage and the hyper inflation…

We must do LOOOOOONG lines for hours for buy the basic food. Like flour, sugar, rice, pasta, meat, chicken…. 

We only can buy one time at the week, for the last number of our ID. 

Please - someone IN Venezuela. Give me a name. A valid website. Something. I will do my damnedest to make something happen, even if it’s just a few families getting fed a few days.

The only way we have to fight this crisis is through social media, we use twitter to find meds and food and we came up with a few apps like Donamed or Akiztá to help us find what we need. 

There are a bunch of twitter accounts dedicated to locate meds, such as: @spvzla, @MedicinasEquiv, @Flapastillita, @compartex1vida, @sanandove, @Donatumed, @AyudaMedicinasV y @DonandoMedicin1

For the people out there that want to help, like I said… it’s hard to tell you how you could do that because there’s no warranty that we’ll get the help. Still, I won’t let them win so I did my research and I found a few websites that I think you guys can trust and can donate to.

http://comparteporunavida.com/ —> With your donation, this people get formula and nutritional suppliments for children in hospitals and homes in need.

http://www.ayudahumanitariavenezuela.org/english.html —> You can go to their online shop to buy medical supplies from a wish list, which are then delivered to those in need.

https://www.soschildrensvillages.org.uk/donate/sponsor-a-child/ —> I think you can choose and sponsor a Venezuelan child.

http://www.chamos.org.uk/about-us/ —> They provide financial support for children to acquire medical, educational or other essential equipment.

http://www.corazonymanosenaccion.com/dona_ahora.htm —> The thing with this site is that the bank accounts they work with are from here, so I don’t know the process when it’s an international donation.

The other sites I could find two gofundme created by people like you and me, I hope they mean well and that the money they receive reaches the people who really need it.

https://www.gofundme.com/FoodtoVenezuela

https://www.gofundme.com/help-venezuela

If anyone knows more valid websites where people can go and make their donation, please feel free to add it.

He’s a rock star

He doesn’t listen to gross sexist assholes

He loved Rose so much

He is such a great father to Steven

He works hard at the car wash so he can provide for Steven and The Crystal Gems (which might also explain why he lives in his van)

Greg is a great dad who always looks out for Steven and overall is very sweet and his life hasn’t been easy and everyone should be nice to him

Think about it - how many TV dads have you seen with Greg’s problems, or problems like them? He’s half a Homer Simpson or a Matt Foley. Balding, overweight, washed up musician, runs a car wash, lives in a van. In any other show, those would be the gags about Greg - haha, he’s bald, he’s broke, he’s going nowhere, haha - jokes made at him, not by him. He’d be sidelined as an incompetent, overweight dunce. He’d be comedy relief, not a father figure.

Steven Universe’s writing shines because it doesn’t frame or treat Greg that way. Instead he’s a genuinely great person, chipper and musical. He’s a huge part of his son’s story - supporting Steven even in his own awful living situation, doing everything he can to help the cause, despite being an average joe with no super powers. He’ll crack a self-deprecating line about his poverty or his hairline every now and again, but those are jokes coming from him, fully aware and accepting of how he must appear to the world. Greg’s not dumb, he’s not unaware, and he’s not selfish. He’s not an alcoholic, he’s not a deadbeat. He’s just a big, happy 1980s kid, who’s been through a lot.

“You could buy a house, or a car!”

“I guess that I can, but I already got a van.”

Him living in a van is not and has never been a consequence of circumstance. He could afford to build an entire house for Steven, so he could have rented a house for them both instead. He’s just a very humble man who doesn’t want for much. What he wants most is to better Steven’s life, to give him a roof over his head, a nice house by the ocean, and the opportunity to train with the Crystal Gems without Greg getting in way. After getting that money, Greg has only spent it on Steven; even if he also benefits from it, it’s always in the name of Steven’s own antics. He paid for the hotel in Empire City Steven wanted to go to, and brought Pearl (a third person, meaning more money) at Steven’s insistence. He rented the yacht so Steven could take Lapis out on the ocean to relax (and later bought it). He bought the telescope for Ronaldo as per the plan Steven and the gems came up with to keep Beach City safe. And now he’s paying for supplies to rebuild Steven’s house AGAIN. The only thing he bought for himself was a car he loved as a young adult, and he immediately let Stevonnie drive it, and later Pearl, who left it on the side of the road when it broke down/ran out of gas.

CATS IN CINEMA: Salem Saberhagen, Sabrina the Teenage Witch (1996-2003)

Which made me oddly happy. I started imagining a world in which we replaced the phrase “politically correct” wherever we could with “treating other people with respect”, and it made me smile. 

You should try it. It’s peculiarly enlightening.

I know what you’re thinking now. You’re thinking “Oh my god, that’s treating other people with respect gone mad!”