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Absolutely not. No one wins an argument and it's the least likely form of communication to result in any part changing their mind. Even formal debate with rules and timers doesn't lead to changed minds often.
I personally strive to be factually and logically correct about anything I might discuss (that can be validated by facts or logic). Despite spending large portions of my time reading and researching so that I understand the world I live in better, I could count on one hand the number of times I've been able to change someone's mind.
The truth is it's very hard, bordering on impossible to change someone's mind who isn't open to it and most people are not. It's easier to make a snap judgement and never reconsider it or let someone else form one's opinion of something than to do the work to understand a topic enough to warrant having an opinion at all.
The extreme polarization of opinion and the politicization of basically everything makes it so that it's rapidly becoming functionally impossible to interact with people of different ideologies as they now encompass most of one's life.