I'm new to lemmy .ml and unfamiliar with Sedan so I thought they were equating social democracy with socialism

I always shy away from making both points at once -- "social democracy is not socialism, but also, socialist states do engage with capitalism to avoid embargo and build their economies" -- because it tends to segue to China, which is exhausting to talk about with western socdems but you lose credibility if you're not willing to go the distance

...but I guess my oversimplified version still implicitly comments on AES states so it could use some work