We can't possibly observe that Kim, Horn and their ilk are warmongers since we're not Caldari.

Excuse me sir.

While I appreciate your apparent concerns for the well being of the state and those who serve it, it is not your place to pass judgement on Kim-haani or her ties with the state.
If you have not yourself walked the way of the winds, you do not have any idea what the ties between a statesman and the state is. You do not understand that every single citizen of the state will lay down their life for the betterment of the state. You do not understand that despite Kim-haani being at odds with with a lot of other statesmen, she would still lay her life for them, as they for her.

Kim-haani have more than earned her place in the state. While it saddens me that she is walking across the winds at the time, her commitment to what she perceives as the state is commendable, if a little misguided. Kim-haani has a passion in her heart that burns brightly and strong. The winds have given her great strength and she uses it for the betterment of the state.

When you communicate with the lost, you should not scold them because they are lost, but guide them home.

Maybe I am 50% Achura, but I am 100% Caldari, and if you dirty jaijii want to say it again, I swear you will drink your own blood till the end of your miserable gallentish life!

Ukai tsujai Caldarin Vaktikun [by] laaniku Heth-tirokkunone [is] dyishi Caldarin Vaktikun.

Then your Napanii is not up to scratch, Though i have a feeling that some others understood why i used that particular term.

tirokkunone : n. ruler, tyrant

Mine may be somewhat limited, as I did not learn it during my formative years, but I will try to explain this in the native tongue of the Raata.

Ukai tsujai Caldarin Vaktikun [by] laaniku Heth-tirokkunone [is] dyishi Caldarin Vaktikun.

You are an insane Achura worshiping an insane "executor" of the Caldari State.

TASTE CALDARI STEEL!

I think Kim may have just challenged Zero Vigilant to a sword fight (or something else involving melee weapons).

This could be interesting. Before I place my bet, what training do each of you have in hand to hand combat?

Before I place my bet, what training do each of you have in hand to hand combat?

Over 5 years of taistoiitsu training in monastery.
Over 5 years of professional military training.
I won't give you exact numbers and experience, or it won't be interesting.

And yet you still can take a bullet to the head like everyone else....

Oh, sorry, I interrupted. Do go on about your hand to hand training.

At distances of up to 14-20 meters a skilled assailant with a melee weapon or hand-to-hand training can kill you before you can draw, un-safety and fire a pistol.

You can know that many things about what I do and do not understand, from one simple line?

Indeed, it may be amusing to see a tribal practising his language skills.
Unfortunately, this is completely random and out of the scope of the discussion.
I hope that the tribal will understand it, go practise in other place and say something meaningful instead for a change.

If you are not walking the way of the winds, you cannot hope to understand the way of the winds.
If you are not Kim-haanis direct superior you cannot pass judgement on her.

You should stick to your declaration of intent: "I will leave it to the people you claim to be part of to decide what term to use for you."

You even acknowledge yourself, that you are in no position to pass judgement, so why be so hypocritical to do it anyways?

"Our beliefs and ways are so awesome they are incomprehensible to the clueless foreigners, thus they have no right to comment on or share their opinions regarding, our ways or any of our people."

I will keep this in mind for any further conversations with you and simply go about and assume a whole bunch of things about you - much like you yourself make assumptions about me - as opposed to trying my hand at understanding things that are not to hard to understand if I try.

Also, sharing one's opinion on someone else based on their actions is not forbidden, nor is it hypocritical to state what one thinks of another but leave it to said other's peers to pass final judgment and make the final call - like I did.

Diana Kim has behaved and spoken in a manner that leads me to conclude that she is far removed from what I have come to identify as "being Caldari" as in, the vast majority of Caldari I have met that honor their ways and behave in a manner they consider honorable, have been far removed from this joke of a woman.

Far as I see it, if "being Caldari" is a condition that has so wide a definition to cover the behavior and ways of someone like Dex Netherland or Stitcher, and Diana Kim and this new guy, TomHorn or whatever his name was, then the term is meaningless - it would contradict itself. The only conclusion then, is that Diana Kim's behavior falls outside of commonly accepted definitions of what "being Caldari" is like.

If you don't like that Pilot Weitong, you will just have to deal.

If you are not walking the way of the winds, you cannot hope to understand the way of the winds.
If you are not Kim-haanis direct superior you cannot pass judgement on her.
Your observations, whether they might be true or not, are irrelevant.

Understanding of a culture or spirituality does not hold a requirement that you be of that culture or spirituality.
If it did, no culture would ever evolve.

Opinions and judgements are made on a daily basis. You yourself pass judgement on others with the very words you speak, yet tell others that they cannot pass judgement.

as for the third statement, when untrue, an observation may be irrelevant. When true, by it's very nature, an observation must hold some relevance.

Dismissing someone's ideas, whether true or otherwise, simply because you do not agree with them is willful ignorance, that is a dangerous path to take.

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Seven Tribes.
One Matari People.

That depends on how much training one has with a pistol, and how good one's reflexes are.

It also depends on where the pistol is holstered.

That Diana Kim is howling like a monkey about sword fights suggests she's too much of a coward to face someone in space, where she might lose something of actual value.

There is no fact that Republic Forces or Minmatar Militia's had any influence whatsoever on the gains that the Gallente Federation made in Black Rise. As allies of the Federation we do support one another, but are not obligated to assist in military operations that do not progress our peoples nation.

As I recall the same nearly happened to the Amarr Empire's systems just recently...but this isn't about war fronts. Since the Fall of the Shiigeru, there have been better diplomatic relations with the Caldari Corporations than there has been in centuries...with improved security for trade into Jita. I firmly believe a DMZ at Caldari Prime eliminates the tension that the State has ensued on the Gallente peoples.

With the complete retaking of Black Rise...shortly followed by the destruction of the States most powerful Flagship, which was destroyed in a matter of minutes.

Recent events would behoove the Caldari State (if you would call it that) to stand down its military operations and focus more on Humanitarian Aid.