yea maybe, but that **** stingsPseudo-intellectual is so horribly overused that it takes away from when it's actually apt. Too many people just use it as a go-to insult when they don't actually have a response to an argument, because dumb people need excuses not to feel dumb, and of course the usual way of doing that is rationalization and not actual thinking. Calling someone a pseudo-intellectual gets you out of having to provide a real argument, makes it look like you're one step ahead of the other guy, and lets other people also think that they aren't fooled by it - it's broken tier.
kinda like when you call something your friends like mediocre