Seems likely that most 1,000+ comment threads are political.
Using BigQuery to group the number of threads by subreddit:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_bL0dVn3z2R-pUkWuWNr...
SELECT subreddit, SUM(num_comments >= 1000) as num_comments_gte1000
FROM [fh-bigquery:reddit_posts.full_corpus_201512]
GROUP BY subreddit
ORDER BY num_comments_gte1000 DESC
LIMIT 1000