…sure…there’s no particular shortage of voices who’ve been saying a whole bunch of the same stuff for longer than anyone’s been using the word politics in the same sentance as donald fucking trump…but we’re all still stuck on this boat while he swears blind the ice berg went away & the hole doesn’t matter because it’s below the waterline where nobody can see it
A Plague of Willful Ignorance
…you know what, though…orange foolius always has had trouble with rule #4
From inside the MAGA gates, Trump can’t see how the world has changed.
…didn’t know these were a thing…but if you have the time (it runs to a half-hour or so & the first bit is perhaps more interesting than the later stuff) there’s worse ways you could spend it
…meanwhile…I can’t really believe that they found a million reservations for that redhat hate rally plausible enough to publicize the number in advance…but the more I think about the possibility that they just sucked a shit-ton of dead end addresses into their pride & joy donor-triangulation software the funnier I find this story so here it is again
Inside the campaign, advisers believe disappointing attendance at the rally shows genuine fear of the coronavirus and the reality of President Trump’s sliding poll numbers.
President Trump has said Mary L. Trump signed a nondisclosure agreement in connection with a 2001 court case related to the estate of Fred Trump Sr., the president’s father and her grandfather.
…now I don’t know about you folks but this whole story seems like it’s been light on some salient information…if the rope was in that garage for months how plausible is it that those responsible for assigning that garage to that team were aware of it?
…&…not to be callous about it but the term noose is pretty specific…but absent a very specific knot that’s more by way of a loop…& there are a considerable number of reasons that a looped section of rope in a garage might plausibly have a purpose other than intimidation…so…while I can comprehend a version of events wherein it wasn’t really “a thing”…I find it very hard to believe that whoever noticed the thing & drew attention to it did so over an innocent loop of rope…& if you’ve had a fucking noose hanging in a garage for months on end & nobody thought to remove the thing how does that really speak better of your organisation?
…after all…sometimes when you get to the bottom of things the damage is already done
Many Medical Decision Tools Disadvantage Black Patients
im stuck at home….breathing issues…pretty sure its hayfever but ive never had it this bad before
we now have a fancy drive in rona testing street in my town…..figured i’d call in and make an appointment….more to put me bossman and coworkers at ease than coz im worried
got told to fuck off unless im medical personnel
we have the capacity to test everyone…but still arent testing turns out
anyhoo… figured fine…ill just make an appointment with me gp and go cough on old biddies in the waiting room then *shrugs…see if i care*
spent about an hour in the fucking phone que then didnt get an appointment..
they just told me to swing by the shop and get an inhaler
holy shit what do they put in those things?
fucking works man….also…what a rush
anyhoo…i can breathe again… guess ill be at work again tomorow
soooo….i guess i have officially got rye flavoured hayfever now
anyhoo… more of those inhalers please 😀
paycheck bit?
you mean work?…… man…i spent a year working for them as a contractor…never a day sick
now i have a contract ive been sick 5 times in 3 months……even i think its suspicious
do i really not have to use the inhaler all at once?…..its kinda fun
Steroids are in those inhalers, I think? If you start to eat a lot and feel aggressive and sleep even less, then steroids. That said, OTC Flonase (fluticasone propionate) nasal spray 2x a day mostly keeps me in good shape. Hope you feel better and stay that way.
*wrecks the place*
i should probably go for a nap…..i feel fantastic
medication works wierd on me….and i guess this one is no exception
shit dis nice yo!
…possibly worth noting (with the fancy new edit tools & all) that you tube links seem to be happiest embed-wise if they are pasted in “raw” (without using the link option in the edit bar) with an empty line seperating them from any surrounding text…at least judging by a couple I seem to have bargained a preview out of?
The asshole quit today. Which indicates one of two things:
1. He has a conscience.
2. He is so freaking screwed with DNA evidence, computer records, witness testimony, and other evidence that he can’t possibly fight it.
LOL, it’s 2.
Thanks for the link to the Jamelle Bouie piece. He is fantastic in general — really smart and well informed, and extremely perceptive.
He gets a lot of crap from conservatives because he writes very forthrightly about race — Andrew Sullivan was recently fulminating about him — but I can’t help but feel that they are infuriated because he makes coherent arguments based on evidence while the conservative clique is overloaded with legacy and quota types who can only resort to cliches and vague waving toward their feelings. Someone who has earned what has been handed to them on a silver platter is not how the system is supposed to work.
I hate when people say they don’t see color. It’s disingenuous given that racism has shaped the lives of Black people. It’s just another form of erasure, a way to ignore the history and struggle of Black people in America while pretending to treat all people the same. I see the color of my friend’s and neighbor’s skin. I see the privilege it affords some, the trauma it’s caused others. I try to confront the first, in myself as well as my fellow white people. I respect and honor the second, acknowledging the culture that has grown from and in spite of that pain, and doing what I can to eradicate future suffering. If you don’t see the color of BIPOC then you don’t see the whole person. So how could you understand what they are going through?
…we pretty much welcome the ranting in these parts, to be honest…particularly ones I’m inclined to agree with
…there’s an interpretation of “not seeing color” that I can allow might be “a good thing” in the sense of seeing people as people first & foremost…with all the various things that make them the particular individual they are coming after that the same way their words & actions might…I recall there being a southpark episode about a flag in which that seemed to be the angle they were aiming for, for example
…but all too often it seems to be intended as a way of saying “I can’t be racist if I look at people who aren’t white as though they are”…& the sheer wrongheadedness of that bit of mental gymnastics is kind of staggering in very much the manner you describe
…the whole construct that is “white people” is pretty shoddy if you start to interrogate it at any depth so maybe it isn’t entirely surprising that some people seem to think being integrated into it is a one way process akin to osmosis rather than, say, moving on to a point that’s “beyond” it the way neitzsche talked about moving “beyond good & evil”
…which is to be fair a set of goalposts I’d love to see moved in the way he talked about…either way, I think I’m with you on that?
I think seeing the whole person is the key. I don’t look at every BIPOC and see only their color.There is a tendency of some liberals to go overboard in that direction. I see my neighbors as moms first. Then understand their concerns for their biracial or Black children are a little different than the parents of the white children they play with. They all want them to grow up to be happy, healthy, and successful. But there are different obstacles for some of them.Does that make sense?
…it makes sense to me, although it’s debatable to what extent that counts in objective stakes, I suppose
…my suspicion is that empathy is the key to the whole thing more or less independent of which boxes you check on humanity’s spectrum of visual (or indeed less visible) options & extras…it pretty much doesn’t matter who you are, if you aren’t me I’m going to struggle to see things your way if I can’t get the empathy thing running…whereas if I can then I might be better or worse at winding up in the right place but at least I’m headed in the right direction & looking for signposts?
I also need to check my own privilege here by pointing out how freaking white of me to not immediately recognize that we white people are also shaped by our color. Ugh, I hate how far I still have to go.
…in my (arguably not typical or necessarily extensive) experience the sincerity of the effort made often seems to be prized more highly than its technical acomplishment?
…pretty sure we all of us have a lot to learn…& with any luck we don’t stop?
I resent the fact that a lot of conservatives use folks of Asian descent as the “Perfect” minorities to beat over the heads of black folks (among others) while saying “See? They don’t make a fuss. They study hard. They work hard. Unlike you.”
These right wing dumbasses don’t get that many of “us” came from privilege too. My parents were well educated/upper class (mom’s side) when they immigrated to Canada City. The cohort of Asians that immigrated to North America from the 1950s-70s was probably the most educated/privileged group of immigrants ever.
Of course, I have my own issues with entitlement too. If I worked hard and gave it my best then I feel that I deserve that promotion over the under educated white guy who got it and get really pissed off about it while not realizing that there are a lot of folks who didn’t even get a chance to compete for that position at all.
At least I am sort of aware of my own issues… (acting on that knowledge is different and tougher) unlike my horrible aunt who believes in her xenophobic/racist heart that her precious entitled spoiled kids deserved to get spots at Ivy League schools (they got in just not the schools they wanted) unlike black folks who got scholarships yet is silent about the white rich doofi like the Jared Kushners of the world who bought their way in (my racist aunt believes that this is HER peer group which it kind of is, but without the realization they look at her the same way they look at all non whites.)
Not sure if this is the right place for this but I need to vent.
The whole thing with Bubba Wallace has my Jimmies rustled proper.
So, I am glad it wasn’t a deliberate attack. This is an inarguable positive. But who ties a garage door pull into a noose?! Really? It certainly looks like one in the, albeit very low resolution pics available. And I am glad that someone that wasn’t even on his team saw fit to report this. It’s heartwarming to know that someone cared enough to have this checked out.
But what has me so apoplectic with rage is all the cretins who are furious over how much ‘outrage’ this caused and that is was all a plan by the MSM to manufacture a narrative. They act like caring for other people’s feelings is some sort of SJW plot to destroy the very fabric of this country.
I find that very telling. And also rage-stroke maddening. How much of a cowardly, pathetic, purile, callous, cold-hearted, selfish bastard must one be to get so angry about a sport that has been notorious for its casual and at times overt support for racism making positive changes? Are the people angry about this being nothing so abjectly miserable they are compelled to bring everyone else down with them?
The comment section on The Drive is a cesspool of vile, disgusting, filthy, hateful cretins. And I see several notorious trolls from the Jalopnik front page have migrated over there.
Sorry. There isn’t much point to this. I just needed to vent and to make sure I’m not crazy. Well, at least not crazy about it still being okay to care about other people and how they might feel.
The rest of my crazy needs professional help not found on internet comment sections. Wonderful as you all are.
Stay safe everyone. You’re all awesome.
…so, to double down on the rants-welcome thing…that’d be another big uh-huh from me
…it’s one whole kind of fucked up that a piece of rope tied in a noose should be considered appropriate as a de facto door pull (or whatever the thing was supposedly for)…& a whole other one for that to be left in situ & remain unremarked upon let alone altered in the intervening months…nothing about that says good things, really
…& it’s at least a related kind of fucked up that NASCAR as a sport has “traditionally” made itself something of a haven for people who think that part of the deal with being a fan is that you get access to a “safe space” in which to revel in a bit of recreational bigotry
…but to jump straight to the it’s-a-conspiracy-to-denude-my-sport-of-all-the-bigoted-bits-I’m-in-it-for-which-simply-can’t-be-a-natural-phenomenon position seems like the very definition of the lady doth protest too much?
I am not a professional – but you are NOT the crazy one. It is always okay to care about people – it shows that you possess the empathy gene and that is a good thing.
I’ve given up trying to follow that story or the discussion around it anymore. Was it an actual noose, or was it a loop of rope tied into an overhand knot, which people use all the time as pulls and handles and such things?
…honestly, I’ve tried at least a bit to get an image of the thing to look at so I could decide for myself if it seemed like the first word I’d use to describe it just in a primary-sources-are-nice way…& come up short
…given that it seems to have remained the term used from the outset I guess my working assumption is that it is/was at least something that could reasonably be mistaken for or taken to be intended as a noose but my utterly unfounded feeling is that a “full-on” hangman’s knot is a lot of effort to go to & generally doesn’t result in a fixed loop, at least as I’m given to understand it
…I think the deal with your actual gallows knot was that by being a “running loop” it lined up (possibly behind an ear around where jaw met neck) & ensured that when the door opened & the body dropped that weight combined with the knot snapped the neck & killed you quick…so, distasteful as it might be to consider, that kind of knot most likely wasn’t the sort employed by the sorts of folks who thought lynchings were a pretty neat idea?
…whereas the kind of short-line-ending-in-a-loop knot I take you to be referring to is much quicker if you need a quick handle rigged…which is why I find it a little odd (to put it mildly) that I didn’t seem to be able to turn up an image of the thing after all the ink that’s been spilled over it…you’d think (given that just the other day I read something about some rope loops someone had rigged in a park for the purpose of exercise being mistaken for a series of nooses) that if there were any ambiguity the NASCAR folks could point to & say “we understand how that looks but until you pointed it out the resemblance simply hadn’t crossed our minds” that they’d be pretty quick letting the image speak for itself…which I guess does leave me inclined to believe the individual who drew attention to it had some valid grounds to believe (even if they were wrong) that it was intended to be viewed that way?
…knots can be tricky & there are a number of them that I could see being mistaken for a noose that might have been tied without considering that possibility…a “double overhand loop” or a “surgeon’s loop” or what some people call a “kreh” knot…but on the other hand there are really a pretty good number of knots that could provide the requisite loop without the ambiguity?
“Hey, you know what would be funny? If we put Bubba in that one stall….”
But I’m glad that Trevor can say definitively that there was no intent to be found. The whole thing is as clear as mud.
…it’s blurry as hell but it surely does look like a long length of rope that ends in something I’d have a hard time calling anything but a noose, myself
…so, to go back to the knotty bit of the issue…presumably it isn’t the kind with a running loop or grabbing the loop to close the door would cinch it round your hand & hurt like hell…so if I go with the most charitable interpretation I can muster & figure the person who tied it couldn’t find another rope & couldn’t trim it to a suitable length then maybe they wanted to have the thing weighted at the bottom & easy to grab so they used the excess length to wrap like a lashing so as to provide the weighted component then you could maybe end up with something like that?
…I mean, I don’t personally believe that explanation…hand on heart that looks like the most hateful low-fi solution to the problem of an open garage door that I can think of & I don’t think it happened by chance…but say it did…I have two words for whoever tied it
im stuck at home….breathing issues…pretty sure its hayfever but ive never had it this bad before
we now have a fancy drive in rona testing street in my town…..figured i’d call in and make an appointment….more to put me bossman and coworkers at ease than coz im worried
got told to fuck off unless im medical personnel
we have the capacity to test everyone…but still arent testing turns out
anyhoo… figured fine…ill just make an appointment with me gp and go cough on old biddies in the waiting room then *shrugs…see if i care*
spent about an hour in the fucking phone que then didnt get an appointment..
they just told me to swing by the shop and get an inhaler
holy shit what do they put in those things?
fucking works man….also…what a rush
anyhoo…i can breathe again… guess ill be at work again tomorow
soooo….i guess i have officially got rye flavoured hayfever now
anyhoo… more of those inhalers please 😀
…well, hurrah for the surviving paycheck bit…but the rest of that sounds…not exactly great
…so good luck with it…& don’t use up that inhaler all at once?
paycheck bit?
you mean work?…… man…i spent a year working for them as a contractor…never a day sick
now i have a contract ive been sick 5 times in 3 months……even i think its suspicious
do i really not have to use the inhaler all at once?…..its kinda fun
Steroids are in those inhalers, I think? If you start to eat a lot and feel aggressive and sleep even less, then steroids. That said, OTC Flonase (fluticasone propionate) nasal spray 2x a day mostly keeps me in good shape. Hope you feel better and stay that way.
*wrecks the place*
i should probably go for a nap…..i feel fantastic
medication works wierd on me….and i guess this one is no exception
shit dis nice yo!
…possibly worth noting (with the fancy new edit tools & all) that you tube links seem to be happiest embed-wise if they are pasted in “raw” (without using the link option in the edit bar) with an empty line seperating them from any surrounding text…at least judging by a couple I seem to have bargained a preview out of?
we have a link option?
ive just been leaving them on their own line like i did before
sometimes it still works
Meanwhile, close to home, another Republican has proven himself to be bat-shit crazy:
https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/crime/os-ne-joel-greenberg-indicted-seminole-tax-collector-20200623-rc4fhjuzybbs5f6rlrv44lsu7m-story.html
https://floridapolitics.com/archives/309551-opponents-lining-up-to-take-on-joel-greenberg-in-seminole-co
This guy has a startling long list of unusual, racist and threatening behaviors. Of course, our Republican governor, who would normally suspend this asshole, is taking his time to “review” the situation.
Y’know, I wonder what has emboldened these lunatics over the last three or so years? What possibly could have changed? Must be something in the water.
IDK, whatever could it be? Bueller, Bueller…
The asshole quit today. Which indicates one of two things:
1. He has a conscience.
2. He is so freaking screwed with DNA evidence, computer records, witness testimony, and other evidence that he can’t possibly fight it.
LOL, it’s 2.
Thanks for the link to the Jamelle Bouie piece. He is fantastic in general — really smart and well informed, and extremely perceptive.
He gets a lot of crap from conservatives because he writes very forthrightly about race — Andrew Sullivan was recently fulminating about him — but I can’t help but feel that they are infuriated because he makes coherent arguments based on evidence while the conservative clique is overloaded with legacy and quota types who can only resort to cliches and vague waving toward their feelings. Someone who has earned what has been handed to them on a silver platter is not how the system is supposed to work.
I hate when people say they don’t see color. It’s disingenuous given that racism has shaped the lives of Black people. It’s just another form of erasure, a way to ignore the history and struggle of Black people in America while pretending to treat all people the same. I see the color of my friend’s and neighbor’s skin. I see the privilege it affords some, the trauma it’s caused others. I try to confront the first, in myself as well as my fellow white people. I respect and honor the second, acknowledging the culture that has grown from and in spite of that pain, and doing what I can to eradicate future suffering. If you don’t see the color of BIPOC then you don’t see the whole person. So how could you understand what they are going through?
Sorry for the rant. It’s a pet peeve of mine.
…we pretty much welcome the ranting in these parts, to be honest…particularly ones I’m inclined to agree with
…there’s an interpretation of “not seeing color” that I can allow might be “a good thing” in the sense of seeing people as people first & foremost…with all the various things that make them the particular individual they are coming after that the same way their words & actions might…I recall there being a southpark episode about a flag in which that seemed to be the angle they were aiming for, for example
…but all too often it seems to be intended as a way of saying “I can’t be racist if I look at people who aren’t white as though they are”…& the sheer wrongheadedness of that bit of mental gymnastics is kind of staggering in very much the manner you describe
…the whole construct that is “white people” is pretty shoddy if you start to interrogate it at any depth so maybe it isn’t entirely surprising that some people seem to think being integrated into it is a one way process akin to osmosis rather than, say, moving on to a point that’s “beyond” it the way neitzsche talked about moving “beyond good & evil”
…which is to be fair a set of goalposts I’d love to see moved in the way he talked about…either way, I think I’m with you on that?
I think seeing the whole person is the key. I don’t look at every BIPOC and see only their color.There is a tendency of some liberals to go overboard in that direction. I see my neighbors as moms first. Then understand their concerns for their biracial or Black children are a little different than the parents of the white children they play with. They all want them to grow up to be happy, healthy, and successful. But there are different obstacles for some of them.Does that make sense?
I’m passionate but not very articulate.
…it makes sense to me, although it’s debatable to what extent that counts in objective stakes, I suppose
…my suspicion is that empathy is the key to the whole thing more or less independent of which boxes you check on humanity’s spectrum of visual (or indeed less visible) options & extras…it pretty much doesn’t matter who you are, if you aren’t me I’m going to struggle to see things your way if I can’t get the empathy thing running…whereas if I can then I might be better or worse at winding up in the right place but at least I’m headed in the right direction & looking for signposts?
I also need to check my own privilege here by pointing out how freaking white of me to not immediately recognize that we white people are also shaped by our color. Ugh, I hate how far I still have to go.
…in my (arguably not typical or necessarily extensive) experience the sincerity of the effort made often seems to be prized more highly than its technical acomplishment?
…pretty sure we all of us have a lot to learn…& with any luck we don’t stop?
I resent the fact that a lot of conservatives use folks of Asian descent as the “Perfect” minorities to beat over the heads of black folks (among others) while saying “See? They don’t make a fuss. They study hard. They work hard. Unlike you.”
These right wing dumbasses don’t get that many of “us” came from privilege too. My parents were well educated/upper class (mom’s side) when they immigrated to Canada City. The cohort of Asians that immigrated to North America from the 1950s-70s was probably the most educated/privileged group of immigrants ever.
Of course, I have my own issues with entitlement too. If I worked hard and gave it my best then I feel that I deserve that promotion over the under educated white guy who got it and get really pissed off about it while not realizing that there are a lot of folks who didn’t even get a chance to compete for that position at all.
At least I am sort of aware of my own issues… (acting on that knowledge is different and tougher) unlike my horrible aunt who believes in her xenophobic/racist heart that her precious entitled spoiled kids deserved to get spots at Ivy League schools (they got in just not the schools they wanted) unlike black folks who got scholarships yet is silent about the white rich doofi like the Jared Kushners of the world who bought their way in (my racist aunt believes that this is HER peer group which it kind of is, but without the realization they look at her the same way they look at all non whites.)
Not sure if this is the right place for this but I need to vent.
The whole thing with Bubba Wallace has my Jimmies rustled proper.
So, I am glad it wasn’t a deliberate attack. This is an inarguable positive. But who ties a garage door pull into a noose?! Really? It certainly looks like one in the, albeit very low resolution pics available. And I am glad that someone that wasn’t even on his team saw fit to report this. It’s heartwarming to know that someone cared enough to have this checked out.
But what has me so apoplectic with rage is all the cretins who are furious over how much ‘outrage’ this caused and that is was all a plan by the MSM to manufacture a narrative. They act like caring for other people’s feelings is some sort of SJW plot to destroy the very fabric of this country.
I find that very telling. And also rage-stroke maddening. How much of a cowardly, pathetic, purile, callous, cold-hearted, selfish bastard must one be to get so angry about a sport that has been notorious for its casual and at times overt support for racism making positive changes? Are the people angry about this being nothing so abjectly miserable they are compelled to bring everyone else down with them?
The comment section on The Drive is a cesspool of vile, disgusting, filthy, hateful cretins. And I see several notorious trolls from the Jalopnik front page have migrated over there.
Sorry. There isn’t much point to this. I just needed to vent and to make sure I’m not crazy. Well, at least not crazy about it still being okay to care about other people and how they might feel.
The rest of my crazy needs professional help not found on internet comment sections. Wonderful as you all are.
Stay safe everyone. You’re all awesome.
…so, to double down on the rants-welcome thing…that’d be another big uh-huh from me
…it’s one whole kind of fucked up that a piece of rope tied in a noose should be considered appropriate as a de facto door pull (or whatever the thing was supposedly for)…& a whole other one for that to be left in situ & remain unremarked upon let alone altered in the intervening months…nothing about that says good things, really
…& it’s at least a related kind of fucked up that NASCAR as a sport has “traditionally” made itself something of a haven for people who think that part of the deal with being a fan is that you get access to a “safe space” in which to revel in a bit of recreational bigotry
…but to jump straight to the it’s-a-conspiracy-to-denude-my-sport-of-all-the-bigoted-bits-I’m-in-it-for-which-simply-can’t-be-a-natural-phenomenon position seems like the very definition of the lady doth protest too much?
I am not a professional – but you are NOT the crazy one. It is always okay to care about people – it shows that you possess the empathy gene and that is a good thing.
Vent away…
I’ve given up trying to follow that story or the discussion around it anymore. Was it an actual noose, or was it a loop of rope tied into an overhand knot, which people use all the time as pulls and handles and such things?
…honestly, I’ve tried at least a bit to get an image of the thing to look at so I could decide for myself if it seemed like the first word I’d use to describe it just in a primary-sources-are-nice way…& come up short
…given that it seems to have remained the term used from the outset I guess my working assumption is that it is/was at least something that could reasonably be mistaken for or taken to be intended as a noose but my utterly unfounded feeling is that a “full-on” hangman’s knot is a lot of effort to go to & generally doesn’t result in a fixed loop, at least as I’m given to understand it
…I think the deal with your actual gallows knot was that by being a “running loop” it lined up (possibly behind an ear around where jaw met neck) & ensured that when the door opened & the body dropped that weight combined with the knot snapped the neck & killed you quick…so, distasteful as it might be to consider, that kind of knot most likely wasn’t the sort employed by the sorts of folks who thought lynchings were a pretty neat idea?
…whereas the kind of short-line-ending-in-a-loop knot I take you to be referring to is much quicker if you need a quick handle rigged…which is why I find it a little odd (to put it mildly) that I didn’t seem to be able to turn up an image of the thing after all the ink that’s been spilled over it…you’d think (given that just the other day I read something about some rope loops someone had rigged in a park for the purpose of exercise being mistaken for a series of nooses) that if there were any ambiguity the NASCAR folks could point to & say “we understand how that looks but until you pointed it out the resemblance simply hadn’t crossed our minds” that they’d be pretty quick letting the image speak for itself…which I guess does leave me inclined to believe the individual who drew attention to it had some valid grounds to believe (even if they were wrong) that it was intended to be viewed that way?
…knots can be tricky & there are a number of them that I could see being mistaken for a noose that might have been tied without considering that possibility…a “double overhand loop” or a “surgeon’s loop” or what some people call a “kreh” knot…but on the other hand there are really a pretty good number of knots that could provide the requisite loop without the ambiguity?
you can see it a few times between 1:10 and 1:40 (not very clearly!):
“a noose is never good news”
“Hey, you know what would be funny? If we put Bubba in that one stall….”
But I’m glad that Trevor can say definitively that there was no intent to be found. The whole thing is as clear as mud.
…it’s blurry as hell but it surely does look like a long length of rope that ends in something I’d have a hard time calling anything but a noose, myself
…so, to go back to the knotty bit of the issue…presumably it isn’t the kind with a running loop or grabbing the loop to close the door would cinch it round your hand & hurt like hell…so if I go with the most charitable interpretation I can muster & figure the person who tied it couldn’t find another rope & couldn’t trim it to a suitable length then maybe they wanted to have the thing weighted at the bottom & easy to grab so they used the excess length to wrap like a lashing so as to provide the weighted component then you could maybe end up with something like that?
…I mean, I don’t personally believe that explanation…hand on heart that looks like the most hateful low-fi solution to the problem of an open garage door that I can think of & I don’t think it happened by chance…but say it did…I have two words for whoever tied it
“Monkey’s Fist”