#mafaldaposting

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'ahem!' 'from this humble little chair i make a passionate plea for world peace!' 'ugh! looks like these days, the vatican, the UN, and my little chair are all as convincing as each other'

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hey, whats the comic in yr header about? i couldnt find the full text sorry

— "Have you thought about what it would be like if there was no such thing as distance, Felipe?"

— "If there was no such thing as distance? No. What would it be like?"

— "Well, everything would be here. Can you really imagine what it would mean for everything to be here?"

[THE KREMLIN THE BEATLES THE LONE RANGER AFRICA CUBA THE BERLIN WALL EVERYTHING HERE DISNEYLAND VIETNAM JERRY LEWIS PELÉ THE KU KLUX KLAN]

— "Can you really imagine, Felip..."

— "Yep, he really can imagine."

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whos mafalda

mafalda is the main character of an argentinian newspaper comic of the same name that ran in the late 60s/early 70s. it's a bit like peanuts or calvin and hobbes in that it centers on weirdly existential and melancholy kids but it's a lot more openly political.

"from this humble little chair i make an impassioned plea for world peace!" / "ugh, looks like nowadays the vatican, the un, and my little chair have the same powers of persuasion"

"the pawns on the other hand, can only capture¹ if..." "see? see?" / "and people are surprised by the advance of communism!"

¹in spanish, a pawn / 'peón' can also refer to a rural labourer and chess piece capturing is called 'eating'. so there's a pun going on here

"hey, guess who this looks like!" / "my granny??"

mafalda is truly an icon for all the weird little latin american girls of this world who grew up to be sad latin american communists. tbh

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autism heritage comic

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marxism-leninism-mafaldaism

la ciencia inmortal de mafaldismo-libertadismo

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i keep seeing your pfp as marcy from peanuts. sry

deberían ser amiguitas

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mafalda characters ranked from most to least likely to smoke weed when they get older: felipe > libertad > mafalda > miguelito > manolito > susanita

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What's your story with Mafalda?

It honestly makes me so proud to see an account like this be into a national comic strip as good as that

i'm venezuelan, my parents had all the books and they were some of the first things i read and reread as a child. mafalda and her sense of principles and curiosity were inspirational to me as a kid! and i think the comics still really hold up for the most part, they're funny and insightful and still very relevant to all of latin america & the world today

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maflada's influence extends to at least one sad portuguese girl who grew up to be a communist aka my mom

mafalda is a transcontinental unstoppable force.... truly ........

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i mafaldapost too much im stealing valor from all my argentinian mutuals but what venezuelan pop culture icons am i supposed to post about. ‘im like if simon bolivar was a girlblogger?’ thats nothing. that wouldnt do numbers

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unironically enjoy your mafaldaposting! she is so special to me

the people have spoken