fanpop is brilliant and everything but does anyone know of any other really great thảo luận places on the net?

First one needs to specify whether actual thảo luận (with theses, arguments, counter-arguments, etc) is desired, hoặc just interesting discussion.

Most actual thảo luận is done within the academy. Therefore, some interesting sites for thảo luận are:
* debate-central.org
* pfdebate.com

In general, if bạn want debate, bạn want to stay away from any site that uses the terms "debate" and "discussion" in the same sentence.

For discussions, bạn would do well to try:
* volconvo.com - all topics
* arguewitheveryone.com - politics
* puretalkforum - anything controversial
* ukdebate.co.uk/forums (sic) - primarily politics

No, but when bạn find one, tell me, so I can dominate it.

OK, in order to make this an actual ANSWER rather than just a comment, I'll tell bạn a story. I cultivated my mad skills over at Ye Olde Muggle Informer, a website I frequented as a preteen-teen. They had a thread for politics and current events. It was the great folks over at the link who taught me what courtesy was in controversial conversations.

However, that place is thêm hoặc less dead now. It's hard for a Harry Potter người hâm mộ site to stay active as long as that one has (nearly ten years, it would be now). So...

It just occurred to me that I didn't answer your câu hỏi at all. *Looks at big yellow box above bình luận space.* Oops.

Um. Carry on.

the yahoo các câu trả lời foroums are good for discussions

well if ur looking for a policy thảo luận hoặc otherwise orginzied thảo luận cross-x.com is the place

fanpop is the best thảo luận website ever known. The other thảo luận websites aren't really that good.