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I feel like Lemmy and Reddit are filled to the brim with these "lazy intellectuals", I'm starting to wonder if any other sort of people even exist online
Idk if I'd even call it "intellectual" so much as "smug". You find this all over. People self-sort into cliches. And then they get high on their own supply, insisting everyone outside their group is inferior.
You'll find it over in the Joe Rogan-verse, among the TradCaths, in every ethnic enclave from Cuban expats to the Taiwanese Diaspora. As common among Marxists as Fascists. As common among Americans as Iranians. As common in the board rooms as the barber shops.
Broadly speaking - and particularly as people get older - we develop this entrenched worldview that results from accumulations of vast amounts of personal and peripheral information.
I call it pseudo-intellectualism. These people 100% think that they know exactly what they are talking about.
Unless you're straight up trying to con someone, everyone thinks they know what they're talking about. Otherwise, they wouldn't be talking.
There's a social element to a lot of this. People want to be seen and included, so they try to add what they think they know. And, outside of an academic setting (or a really boneheaded remark that's easy to refute with a simple Google/Wikipedia search), who bothers to check this shit?