If you're trying to have a discussion about political ideals, spamming factual current event news or pundit-curated facts is not really conductive to discussion

If you're trying to have a discussion about political ideals, spamming factual current event news or pundit-curated facts is not really conductive to discussion. And if the goal is instead to have an argument, it's not a clincher either since both sides have stockpiles of anec-data links to play the game of inductive reasoning. The parent comment was referring to discussion of ideas, not one-off event X happened or didn't happen arguments.