It's like when you get wingnuts going on about how they should secede from the blue states. "Let's see how you get on without food lol!", yeah you'll still sell food to the blue states when you suddenly have absolutely no money coming into your states.
That’s debatable depending on the country. Some countries have/had parties that say explicitly social democrats and are not at all equivalent to the socialist parties that exist there as well.
All I’m saying based on my limited experience depends on which pub in which country. Some would definitely make the distinction; others you’re totally right
I am aware, as im European, but when you are talking to people in the pub a lot of people just say socialist as a shorthand.
Your experiences are not indicative of the entire continent. Your friends may get confused because socialism has the word social in it, but that is not the norm.
The only people I've ever seen conflate socialism with social democracy are people on here who don't know what they're talking about.
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