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m_‮f discuss.online m_f@discuss.online
Joined: 2024-12-11
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Sibbo sopuli.xyz Sibbo@sopuli.xyz
Joined: 2023-06-06
#2 · Quote Reply

I don't know enough USA to understand this.
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Master sh.itjust.works Master@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-06-12
#3 · (edited) Quote Reply
Sibbo wrote:
I don't know enough USA to understand this.

Mimes dont talk. Pleading the 5th is invoking your right to remain silent. But he's speaking it instead of miming in which would have taken ten more panels but been much better.

Also for more context cops in the USA arrest people unjustly.
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m_‮f Moderator m_f@discuss.online
Joined: 2024-12-11
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Master wrote:
Mimes dont talk. Pleading the 5th is invoking your right to remain silent. But he's speaking it instead of miming in which would have taken ten more panels but been much better. Also for more context cops in the USA arrest people unjustly.

The mime is actually doing the right thing here, due to an oddity in US law:

https://www.justia.com/criminal/procedure/miranda-rights/right-to-silence/

Courts have admitted the paradoxical nature of the right to remain silent – an individual must verbalize that they are invoking their right to remain silent.
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sik0fewl piefed.ca sik0fewl@piefed.ca
Joined: 2025-07-06
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Master wrote:
Mimes dont talk. Pleading the 5th is invoking your right to remain silent. But he's speaking it instead of miming in which would have taken ten more panels but been much better. Also for more context cops in the USA arrest people unjustly.

He didn’t mime it because then he would not have been a shitty mime, which is why he’s under arrest in the first place.
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lagg_mine lemmy.world lagg_mine@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-07-28
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Master wrote:
Mimes dont talk. Pleading the 5th is invoking your right to remain silent. But he's speaking it instead of miming in which would have taken ten more panels but been much better. Also for more context cops in the USA arrest people unjustly.

Well, they did say that they were a shitty mime
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Master sh.itjust.works Master@sh.itjust.works
Joined: 2023-06-12
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lagg_mine wrote:
Well, they did say that they were a shitty mime

Yea, that's the joke I guess...
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